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Given by Nancy J. McCracken at ECS400 Senior Undergraduate Course on Spring Semester 97. Foils prepared 11 May 97
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| This course is intended to introduce emerging software technologies relevant to the World Wide Web and equivalent subsets. The material will cover the languages Perl and Java and their use on the Web, including the development of interactive "applet" programs that are distributed via a network for execution on a receiving client machine. |
| Lab time will be devoted to using these languages in student projects. |
| Today we will ask students to fill out surveys about scheduling lectures and labs and about students' backgrounds. |
| Prerequisites: Students should have a good basic understanding of how computers work and should be confident in C or willing to learn C quickly. |
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ECS 400
First Class - Organizational Meeting
Description of the Course
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PERL4
Java
Projects using Engineering Calculations
Projects using (flatfile) Databases
Course Requirements
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| Dr. Nancy McCracken, NPAC, 3-234 CST |
| Syracuse University |
| 111 College Place |
| Syracuse NY 13244-4100 |
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| This course is intended to introduce emerging software technologies relevant to the World Wide Web and equivalent subsets. The material will cover the languages Perl and Java and their use on the Web, including the development of interactive "applet" programs that are distributed via a network for execution on a receiving client machine. |
| Lab time will be devoted to using these languages in student projects. |
| Today we will ask students to fill out surveys about scheduling lectures and labs and about students' backgrounds. |
| Prerequisites: Students should have a good basic understanding of how computers work and should be confident in C or willing to learn C quickly. |
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Section 1 - (1 week)
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Section 2 - (4 weeks)
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Section 3 - (6 weeks)
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Section 4 - scattered within other sections
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| PERL4 is an interpreted language that can be regarded as a cross between C, Unix shell, sed and awk. It is a C-based language which can also deal directly with Unix commands and file system and easily do string processing matching. |
| In this course, we will concentrate not on using PERL in systems programming, but in using PERL for CGI programming, i.e. implementing programs activated from Web pages. Most programs are written from templates. |
| In general, we use PERL for tedious high level things which can take a long time to program but not much execution time. For computationally intense programs, we would use a compiled language such as C. |
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| Java is a new general purpose object-oriented language developed at Sun Microsystems. It is intended to be a simpler cleaner language than C++. |
Java features support the implementation of dynamic multimedia web pages.
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| Example project 1: Air Flow Products |
| Suppose that a company has a collection of heating and cooling units in a product database. They can provide product information through their web pages. Furthermore, they allow architect customers to design ductwork of unusual cross-section to deliver air flow to rooms, when they want the ducts to be visible. The architects can ask for a simulation of the air flow through these ducts for the various units and view its results. The simulation uses Jacobi iteration of Poisson's equation. |
| Example project 2: Heat Equations |
| Suppose that a company has a number of window sizes and materials available for houses. They have a web page in which customers can select windows, and have the heat loss computed. |
| Both of these projects are primarily suited for being done all in Java. |
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| Example project 3: Telemedicine |
| Suppose that a doctor or hospital has a collection of patient records, including diagnostic images. A doctor can view this information through the web pages and also add new diagnostic images. He or she can request to run a computation to compare images or to find features on the image. |
| Example project 4: Visualizing statistics from a database |
| Obtain a database (such as the water quality for various U.S. cities), or have a web page which creates a database and collects data from users. This part could be done either in CGI or Java. Then have a web page on which you can view various properties of the database using geographical maps, graphs, pie charts, etc. as suitable. This part would be done in Java. |
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| There will be two lectures per week and a 2 hour scheduled lab time, of which 1 hour is required. |
| The coursework will consist almost entirely of the two phases of the project. Students will also be asked to keep a lab notebook that records their work and progress in the labs. Each project should be described in a web-based report, and will include, of course, a link to the web demonstration of the project. |
The final grade will be based on
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