CIT 597 Programming Languages & Techniques III
Fall 2008, David Matuszek

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Date	Lectures	Assignments, etc.
Sept. 3	Introduction to CIT 597 HTML XHTML	Google Chrome, just released yesterday. Also read the comic. XHTML and CSS XHTML Basics XHTML Style Guidelines
Sept. 8	CSS HTML Forms	UserFriendly keeps up with current news. Validation services for HTML and XHTML and for CSS.
Sept. 10	JavaScript I	Translator.jar XHTML and CSS and Answer Key
Sept. 15	JavaScript II	Turnblue (JavaScript) JavaScript Style Rules jsenv and Web Developer 1.1.6
Sept. 17	JavaScript and HTML	Forms and Basic JavaScript and Answer Key Concise JavaScript I Concise JavaScript II
Sept. 22	JavaScript Examples XML	Doing Without innerHTML
Sept. 24	More CSS DTDs	Client-side JavaScript, CSS, and XML and Answer Key Working with XML
Sept. 29	Java DOM for XML More DOM	How to Find a File
Oct. 1	SAX	DTDs and DOM and Answer Key Using DOM and SAX SAX Example : PrintXmlNovel.java, Handler.java, war-of-the-worlds.xml, and warbook.dtd.
Oct. 6	Perl
Oct. 8	Basic Protocols The HTTP Protocol Clients and Servers	SAX and Perl and Answer Key Syntax Coloring syntax_coloring_test.java
Oct. 13	No class (Fall break)	Standard Files in Perl More About Standard Files in EasyEclipse
Oct. 15	Bad HTML Style Good HTML Style	No quiz, due to Fall break.
Oct. 20	Servlets Deployment Descriptors
Oct. 22	Servlet Sessions JSP	(Didn't happen) Calculator Servlet
Oct. 27	MVC for Servlets RELAX NG	File Structures for Servlets (2006)
Oct. 29	Ajax	Servlets and JSP and Answer Key Ajax Calculator Servlet
Nov. 3	Ajax and XML Preferences Logging
Nov. 5	Design Principles GUI Design	RELAX NG, Ajax, Preferences and Answer Key
Nov. 10	Ruby	A Concise Introduction to Ruby
Nov. 12	Ruby, continued	Recommended article: Closures and Higher-Order Functions Animals
Nov. 17	Unit Testing in Ruby
Nov. 19	Ruby GUI Toolkits	Ruby and Answer Key Fractions and Unit Tests (small assignment)
Nov. 24	SQL
Nov. 26	XSL	No quiz. Thanksgiving is Nov. 27.
Dec. 1	Rails Unit Testing in Rails	Rails assignment
Dec. 3	Rake Ajax on Rails	Rails and Answer Key

Key
An assignment	Software that will be useful in this course	An article, usually offsite	A tutorial
Official specification (always offsite)	A PowerPoint document, usually one of my lectures	Additional information about the topic	Example