Kennesaw State University

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Spring 2008

IT 3300/001

MW 11:00 – 12:15 SC 212/CL 2009

 

 

 

 

Course Description:

IT 3300 will introduce students to the planning, design, implementation, and maintenance of World Wide Web applications. These Applications may be developed using both high-end development tools and HTML. Topics include tables, image maps, frames, security, ethical issues, application development tools, and development methodologies. This class is not a course in HTML. HTML will be discussed in general terms however; the intent is not to teach HTML coding. In addition, software tools will be used to demonstrate various design elements however they will not be the main focus of the course.

Prerequisites:

CSIS 2300, Introduction to Computing

 

Textbook and Resources:

Required: Principles of Web Design, 3rd Edition, Joel Sklar, Thomson Learning - Course Technology, 2006.

http://www.course.com/catalog/product.cfm?isbn=0-619-21666-2&CFID=7426551&CFTOKEN=18178975

 

 

Instructor:

Sherri Shade

Office:

CL 3021

Email Address:

sshade@kennesaw.edu

Phone:

770.420.4474

Office Hours:

MW 2:00 – 4:00, or by appointment

 

 

Fax Number:

770. 423-6731

 

Website Address:

http://vista.kennesaw.edu/

 

 

Learning Outcomes:

After completing the course, students will be able to:

  • Articulate the basic web design elements.
  • Analyze user audience.
  • Implement web page templates.
  • Understand the processes involved in designing, implementing and maintaining an web site.
  • Understand the difference and use of graphic compression methods
  • Implement testing procedures and methods.
  • Develop feedback mechanisms.
  • Produce effective, maintainable web sites and web applications.
  • Publish a website

 

 

Policies:

This section includes attendance, makeup quizzes, makeup exams, electronic devices, Submission of assignments etc.

 

Class Particpation (labs, quizzes, inclass exercises)

Hands-on labs, quizzes and In Class Assignments will be given throughout the semester. Quizzes will always cover previously lectured material. The quizzes will be short, multiple-choice questions. Makeup class participation components will not be given. Any class material missed by the student is the student's responsibility, not the instructor's.

 

Attendance Policies

Attendance at all classes and lab sessions is highly encouraged. Concepts and ideas discussed in one class are used as building blocks for more concepts and ideas in the next class. A student can get behind very easily by skipping classes, resulting in a poor understanding of the material, which will show up as a poor grade for the class. Any class sessions missed by the student are the student's responsibility to make up, not the instructor's.


Tests

There will be 2 tests consisting of a midterm and a final exam. The content of these tests will come primarily from class notes, speakers, handouts, presentations, and the text. Note that material presented in class will supplement, and often exceed, the assigned reading. Therefore, class attendance and good note-taking are essential tactics for succeeding.

There will be no make-up examinations. It is the student’s responsibility to arrange for an excused absence before the exam. A grade of zero will be assigned for all exams missed without an excused absence. Exams will cover material up to the exam date. Exams cover the textbook material, in-class lectures, in-class presentations, hand-outs, in-class exercises, and homework assignments.

Email Messages

All emails must contain the following in the subject line: IT 3300. The email message must also be signed with an appropriate name. E-mail messages that are missing this information have the potential to be overlooked. 

Example: course/section yourname topic IT 3300/001 sshade question

The instructor guarantees replies to emails received from your Kennesaw email account (netid@students.kennesaw.edu) and mail messages sent through your specific WebCT course (http://vista.kennesaw.edu). Emails sent from other email domains may not reach the instructor's mailbox. In order to ensure receipt/responses to your email be sure that you communicate with the instructor via your Kennesaw email account or via WebCT.


Diversity Statement:

All courses offered by the Computer Science and Information Systems department will adhere to the KSU policy that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, national origin, or sexual orientation.

 

Withdrawal Policy:

The last day to withdraw without academic penalty is 3/10/08 Ceasing to attend class or oral notice thereof DOES NOT constitute official withdrawal from the course. Students who simply stop attending classes without officially withdrawing usually are assigned failing grades. Students wishing to withdraw after the scheduled change period (add/drop) must obtain and complete a withdrawal form from the Academic Services Department in the Registrar’s Office.

 

A new University Withdrawal policy is in effect Fall semester, 2004. Below is an excerpt from the current catalog. For further details, please refer to Academic Policies at http://www.kennesaw.edu/academicaffairs/acadpubs/acadpub/ucat2006-07/i.acad_advise_pol.pdf , page 45 or the 2006-2007 printed catalog.

 

Students may withdraw from one or more courses anytime before the last three weeks of the semester. However, as of fall 2004, students will be allowed a maximum of eight total withdrawals if they enter KSU as a freshman. Transfer students will be allowed one withdrawal per fifteen credit hours attempted, for a maximum of eight. Students who choose to pursue a second degree at KSU will be allowed two additional withdrawals.   Students who entered KSU before the fall of 2004 will be allowed one withdrawal per fifteen credit hours attempted for a maximum of eight after the institution of this policy. To withdraw they should complete an official withdrawal form in the Office of the Registrar. Students who officially withdraw from courses before mid-semester will receive a  “W� in those courses and receive no credit. Ã¢â‚¬Å“   

 

Enrollment Policy:

Only those students who are enrolled in the class may attend lectures, receive assignments, take quizzes and exams, and receive a grade in the class. If a student is administratively withdrawn from this course, they will not be permitted to attend class nor will they receive any grade for the class.

 

Electronic Devices:

In order to minimize the level of distraction, all beepers and cellular phones must be on quiet mode during class meeting times. Students who wish to use a computer/PDA for note taking need prior approval of the instructor since key clicks and other noises can distract other students. Recording of lectures by any method requires prior approval of the instructor. Students using a laptop in class should not check their email, browse the web, or in other way detract from the focus of the class.

 

Classroom Behavior:

Students are reminded to conduct themselves in accordance with the Student Code of Conduct, as published in the Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs. Every KSU student is responsible for upholding the provision. For more details, visit http://www.kennesaw.edu/academicaffairs/acadpubs/acadpub/ucat2006-07/x.General_Policies.pdf . Students who are in violation of this policy will be asked to leave the classroom and may be subject to disciplinary action by the University.

 

Student Email and Web Account Access:

KSU uses a central authentication server that will allow one username and password to be used by all KSU users to access an increasing variety of applications (email, WebCT etc.)  This unified network identification is referred to as your "NetID". The source for university-provided email and web space for students is located at http://students.kennesaw.edu .  Students have access to this system once they have established their NetID.  This system will provide email service through a web based interface, FTP and SFTP.  

How to Activate your NetID:
To activate your NetID go to http://netid.kennesaw.edu and click on the "Sign up Now!" link.  You will be asked to provide information to verify your identity and set your password.  This password will only be for NetID enabled applications.

How to Look Up a NetID:
After you have activated your NetID, you can look up other users by logging into http://netid.kennesaw.edu and clicking on Directory Search.  

How to Send Email:
For student email, your NetID in combination with the new email address would look like netid@students.kennesaw.edu .

 

Web Address:
For student web address, your NETID in combination with the new server address would look like http://students.kennesaw.edu/~netid.


If you have problems please call the Service Desk at ext. 6999 or e-mail service@kennesaw.edu .

 

 

Certificate in Information Technology:

Information Technology (IT) is rapidly becoming as important to career entry and advancement as oral and written communication. In fact, recruiting experts believe that even a small amount of technology savvy and experience, opens doors for anyone entering today's work place. This certificate is ideal for students who enjoy working with computers but do not wish to seek a degree in either computer science or information systems. It is also ideal for students who have already completed a bachelor's degree and seek the latest IT expertise. Students with degrees in fields such as Accounting, Biology, Foreign Language, English, and Sociology will find that the addition of these important IT skills will make them far more marketable.

The IT certificate will offer KSU students knowledge and experience with the latest tools and technologies. Topics include web technologies, database technologies, and electronic commerce. Students are required to receive at least a "C" in courses in order to receive the certificate.

Information about the certificate as well as a application can be found at the following website:  http://science.kennesaw.edu/csis/itcert/

 

Tentative Course Schedule: Subject to change

Labs will be conducted in CL 2009 TBA

 

 

 

 

Week

Date

Topic

Chapters

1

1/7/08

Review Syllabus, getting to know each other

Understanding Web Design Environment

Chapter 1

2

1/14/08

Website Design Principles/DADI

Chapter 2

3

1/21

XHTML/SSH

Chapter 3/Accessibility

Planning the Site

Chapter 3

4

1/28

HTML/FTP - Tables, anchors, links
Planning Site Navigation

Chapter 4

5

2/4

Sketches
Block Diagramming

 

6

2/11

Storyboarding

Creating Page Templates

Chapter 5

7

2/18

Templates continued

 

8

2/25

Storyboards due

Midterm Exam

 

 

3/3

Spring Break

No Class

9

3/10

CSS

Chapter 6

10

3/17

CSS
Elements Box Property

CSS, Navigation, Graphics

Chapter 9

11

3/24

Web Typography – Writing of the Web

Chapter 7

 

12

3/31

Working with Forms

Chapter 10

13

4/7

Graphics

Chapter 8

14

4/14

 

Publishing and Maintaining Your Site – testing tools

Javascript

Deliverable #3 Due

Chapter 11

15

4/21

 

Deliverable #4 Due
Deliverable #5 4/23 - Presentations

 

16

4/28

Deliverable #5

Presentations

 

Final Exam

4/29 – 5/5

http://www.kennesaw.edu/registrar/Fall2007/exams.shtml

 Hands on cumulative

Special Dates:

 

Last day to withdrawal without penalty

March 10th

Last day of class (University)

April 28th

Holidays

January 21st, March 1 - 7

Final Exams

April 29th – May 5th

Graduation

May 13 - 14

 

 

 

Class Format:

The class format will encompass lecture, hands-on exercises, team planning, and team presentations.

 

Lecture Notes:

The PowerPoint slides are located on Vista.

 

Course Project:

The project and presentation are a group effort of 2 - 3 members. You are to form and manage your own groups; you will submit a group contract that will be abided by. All members of the group are expected to contribute to the project. It is a violation of the academic honesty policy to claim that a non-contributing group member participated in a group report or presentation. Peer evaluations will be administered and used to potentially determine individual grades within the group.

Groups will complete a comprehensive Web site design project that encapsulates the concepts and skills learned in this course. The project consists of a web site, presentation, and project documentation. Guidelines and requirements are available on Vista .

 

Additional Resources/Links: Links are located on Vista .

 

Computer Labs:

 

Burruss Building

The labs on the fourth floor of the Burruss Building are open 7 days each week. See the schedule below. Be prepared to show your current student ID card upon entering the lab. The telephone number of the Burruss Building lab is 770-423-6110.

 

LAB HOURS: https://its.kennesaw.edu/cms/index.php?id=1

 

Labs are open most holidays. Labs are not open during the semester breaks.
Call for more information at 770-423-6110

 

Science and Mathematics Building

The lab in SC 228 of the Science and Mathematics Building is open as listed below. The telephone number of the Science and Mathematics Building lab is 770-499-3351.

 

Monday - Thursday

9:00 am - 8:00 pm

Friday

10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Saturday

10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Sunday

Closed

 

 

 

Owl Printing System:

 


The Owl Print system (student network printing/copying solution) is in place in the KSU library as well as all the open labs and lab/electronic classroom combinations across campus.  
Students must have an Owl Print card to use printing/copying services.

 

Assessment:

 

 

 

Participation (Quizzes, inclass exercises, labs, homework)

15%

Web Project

40%

Exam 1

15%

Final Exam

30% Cumulative

 

100%

 

Grade Evaluation

 

 

 

A

90% - 100%

B

89% - 80%

C

79% - 70%

D

69% - 60%

F

59% or below

 

 

Student Course Evaluation:


A standard questionnaire (described below) will be administered during the last two weeks of the semester in all classes. Additional questions developed by the college or instructor(s) may be included as well. It is important that each student provide meaningful feedback to the instructor(s) so that changes can be made in the course to continually improve its effectiveness. We value student feedback about the course, our teaching styles, and course materials, so as to improve our teaching and your learning. At a minimum, the following two questions will be asked: 1) Identify the aspects of the course that most contributed to your learning (include examples of specific materials, exercises and/or the faculty member's approach to teaching and mentoring), and 2) Identify the aspects of the course, if any, that might be improved (include examples of specific materials, exercises and/or the faculty member's approach to teaching and mentoring).

 

Acquiring Final Grades:

The final grades for this course will be posted to the student’s permanent record using the KSU Banner system. Students may acquire their final grades by accessing their Banner account online. Grades are no longer mailed to students. Students needing verification of grades or enrollment should request either an official transcript or an enrollment verification through the Office of the Registrar.

 

APA Documenting Examples:

 

All MSIS students are required to have a copy of the American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual, available in the KSU bookstore and elsewhere.

 

When any portion of another author's work is used, whether it be from a course textbook or outside work, including the World Wide Web, in whole, in part, or paraphrased, that work must be cited. Proper citation formats are provided on the reverse of this document. Failure to do so can result in Academic Misconduct Proceedings.
Acceptable Reference Formats (from North and Blade, 1998 (see below) reprinted with permission)

 

There are two components to a proper citation: the text citation and the reference or endnote. The text citation will usually consist of the author's or authors' last name(s) and the year of the publication. The endnote citation will read as follows:

 

Books

Last-name, First-initial. (Date). Book title. City, State: Publisher.

 

A reference for a single-author book:

 

North, M. M. (1996). Virtual reality technology. New York: Best Press.

 

A reference for a multi-author book:

 

North, M. M. & Blade, R. A. (1998). How to build skills for research. Colorado Springs:

 

IPI Press.

 

Journals

Last-name, First-initial. (Date). Article title. Journal Title, Volume(Issue), pages.

 

Journal Reference:

Here is an article in Volume 45, Issue 3, spanning pages 54-61.

 

Kelly, F. G. (1997). Networking made efficient. Journal of Computer Networking, 45(3),

 

54-61.

 

 

Conference Proceeding

 

Vanner, F. D. (1996). A survey of medical issues using virtual reality. Proceedings of the

 

Virtual Reality Medical Technology. 119-132. Nice, France.

 

 

APA Documenting Examples Continued:

 

World Wide Web (from http://www.apa.org/books/pubmant.html):

Available references from the web include: newspaper articles, newsletters, journals, research papers, government reports, online books or brochures)

 

Minimum requirements for documenting a reference from the web should include: a document title or description, a date (either the date of publication, update, or retrieval date), a complete URL. If possible, identify the author(s) of the document. Entire site no specific page.

 

 

Last-name, First-initial. (Date). Title. Publishing information. Retrieved from the World

 

Wide Web on mm/dd/yy: URL.

 

 

Kidspsych is a wonderful interactive Web site for children (http://www.kidspsych.org).

 

No reference entry is needed.

 

 

Citing Specific Documents on a Web Site:

 

American Psychological Association. (1995, September 15). APA public policy action

 

alert: Legislation would affect grant recipients [Announcement]. Washington, DC.

 

Retrieved January 25, 1996, from the World Wide Web:

 

http://www.apa.org/ppo/istook.html .

 

 

Individual document with no author identified or date:

 

ABC’s Website Survey: (n.d.). Retrieved August 5, 2004, from http://www.abc.com.

 

 

An independent document (no author identified): 1

 

Electronic reference formats recommended by the American Psychological Association.

 

(2000, August 22). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

 

Retrieved August 29, 2000, from the World Wide Web:

 

http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html .

 

If the primary author is not available for the body citation, the first key word is to be used:

 

(Electronic, 2000).

 

 

 

Academic Integrity Statement: