CS 246: Programming Paradigms

Internet Programming Paradigms

General Information

Prerequisites

Texts

Course Structure

Grading

Lectures and Assignments

General Information:

Instructor: Bogdan Butoi, Park 107
E-Mail: bbutoi@brynmawr.edu
WWW: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/~bbutoi

Lecture Hours: Tuesdays 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Room: Park 25

LabHours: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Room: Park 10

Prerequisites:

CS110 and CS206
or
CS110, registration for CS206 and permission of instructor

Texts:

PERL by Example, Second Edition, by Ellie Quigley, Prentice Hall 1998.
JAVA in a Nutshell, Java 1.1, by David Flanagan, O’Reilly & Associates 1998

Course Strucutre:

Part I: Server side programming

Programming Languages: PERL 5/C++

Part II: Client side programming

Programming Languages: Java 1.0 & 1.1

The complete course notes will be available on the web. Please go through the notes and any other reading assignments before class so you will be aware of the subject.
Assignments are handed each Tuesday and are due back the following Tuesday by 5 pm, unless otherwise stated. The assignments will be handed in by email at bbutoi@brynmawr.edu. For your projects, please include a complete description of your homework in a word document or text file (please do not use any other file format). Also provide the URL of your project. You will receive the grades by email no later than the following Friday. Each Thursday, at the beginning of the Lab, I will have couple of students present their work. Every student in the class will present at least one homework during each part of the course.

Note: All work will be done on a UNIX system (mainline.brynmawr.edu). All students will receive an account on this server. Basic knowledge of UNIX is a plus. You will be able to work on your projects from any networked computer on campus with a web browser and a telnet program. You are expected to work by yourself or in groups outside the regular class hours.

Grading:

One project for each section
each 30% of final grade
Weekly projects
30% of final grade
Class participation
10% of final grade

Lectures and Assignments:

Week 1 (January 18 & 20)
Lecture - January 18: First Class Meeting. Introduction to Internet Programming. Server Side and Client Side programming. Perl vs. Java.
Read: 16.1 to 16.5 (including) from Perl by Exampl
Project 1: Find a CGI program you like on the web and tell us why you like it.
Lab - January 20:
Week 2 (January 25 & 27)
Lecture - January 25: Introduction to Perl programming. Variables. Loops. HTML Forms.
Read:4.1,4.2,7.1,7.2,7.3 (without 7.3.5 adn 7.3.6) from Perl by Example
Project 2: Write a Perl program together with a HTML form that should read some data from the user and print it back on the screen.
Lab - January 27:
Week 3 (February 1 & 3)
Lecture - February 1: Operators and Functions for Scalars, Arrays and Associative Arrays
Read: 4.4, 4.5 from Perl by Example
Project 3: Implement some of the options and functions we talked about today in a PERL/CGI program. You can use your own idea or you can do the following problem: Write a Perl program together with a HTML form that should read a text from the user and then count the number of words, sentences and capitals used. You may assume that after every punctuation sign there is a space. You should use one of the special string operators (the number of words is related to number of spaces, number of senetences to number of periods, question marks and exclamation marks, etc). You may add any other information about the text that you feel is useful .
Lab - February 3:
Week 4 (February 8 & 10)
Lecture - February 8: Files and Filehandles
Read: 8.1, 8.3 from Perl by Example
Project 4: Implement some of the options and functions we talked about today in a PERL/CGI program. You can use your own idea or you can do the following problem: Write a Perl program together with a HTML form that should save all the IP numbers of the visiting computers in a file. If the user has visited before, the program should say how many times the user requested that page (how many times he visited it). If it is new, should add the IP to the database and say "hello". You should save the data in a file in the same directory with the program. On each line you should have the IP number and the number of times that computer visited. Ex:
165.106.22.30 10
165.106.10.91 2
Lab - February 10:
Week 5 (February 15 & 17)
Lecture - February 15: Some Perl examples. Programming tips and tricks.
Read: Read someone's project and help her/him with your comments! (you should decide which one you will read by the beginning of the week).
Project 5: Start working on your mideterm project. Send me an email with the proposal for your project: what you want it to do, how you are going to implement it, features of the project. You have to know, as a programmer, how to write this kind of project descriptions. This project description is part of your project. This email should be sent no later than friday. I will reply ASAP with comments and advices. For next tuesday, I need the URL of your future project so I can overlook the development and help you if you need.
Lab - February 17:
Week 6 (February 22 & 24)
Lecture - February 22: CGI Programming with C/C++
Read:
Project 6:
Lab - February 24:
Week 7 (February 29 & March 2)
Lecture - February 29: Movie: Nerds 2.0.1
Read:
Project 7:
Lab - March 27: PERL project presentations
Week 8 (March 7 & 9) - SPRING BREAK
Week 9 (March 15 & 17)
Lecture - March 14: Intro to Java
Read: Sections 1 and 2 from Java in a Nutshell v1.1
Project 9: Using the Java in a Nutshell v1.1 book as reference for all the unknown classes, read and understand the first three examples (Hello World Applets: FirstApplet and SecondApplet,and Scribble Applet, Section 6, pages 127-132). Try to modify one of the applets to include some graphics of your own. Use the Graphics class methods to add more graphics.
Lab - March 15: Work on the above project and discuss development techniques
Week 10 (March 21 & 23)
Lecture - March 21: More about Java
Read: Sections 3, 6 and 7 from Java in a Nutshell v1.1
Project 10: Create an applet with a GUI. Use events handling to control the user interaction with you applet.
Lab - March 23: Work on the above project and discuss event handling.
Week 11 (March 28 & 30)
Lecture - March 28: The Layout Manager
Read: The description of PackerLayout and look at the examples presented in the class notes and at the PackerLayout site
Project 11: Use PackerLayout or any other LayoutManager from the ones presented in class to create a GUI for your applets (I expect this interface to be more complex than two buttons dropped on the screen :) ). You should start thinking about projects, so maybe you will start designing the interface for your term project.
Lab - March 30:

Week 12 (April 4 & 6)
Lecture - April 4: Advanced Java
Read: Read the chapter regarding Threads and animation from Java in a Nutshell v1.1
Project 12: Create an applet that uses threads and/or creates new windows.
Lab - April 6:

Week 13 (April 11 & 13)
Lecture - April 11: Java Programming Q&A Session
Read:
Project 13: Start working on your final projects!!!
Lab - April 13:

Week 14 (April 18 & 20)
Lecture - April 18: Handling Errors. Client-Server development.
Lab - April 20:

Week 15 (April 25 & 27)
Lecture - April 25: Java Q&A Session for final projects

Lab - April 27: JAVA project presentations. Class may run untill 9:00 PM