ECMM 6010: Technology Issues in Electronic Commerce

Dr. Thomas Trappenberg, Fall 2005, W8:30-10:00, F10:00-11:30, Tutorials W1-3pm, Office Hours TBA

news:

Nov 4: XML and XML parser tutorials, and XML slides.

Nov 1: Assignment 5 due on Tuesday, Nov 8 to tt@cs.dal.ca.

Oct 26: Assignment 4 due on Tuesday, Nov 1 to tt@cs.dal.ca.

Oct 19: Assignment 3 due on Tuesday, Oct 25 to tt@cs.dal.ca

Oct 4: Assignment 2 due on Tuesday, Oct 7 to tt@cs.dal.ca before class

Sept 23: Assignment 1 due Wednesday, Sept 28, in class

Sept 16: Here are the slides for the introduction and networking.

honesty:

It is important for students to be aware of the Intellectual Honesty regulations at Dalhousie University. Please see http://plagiarism.dal.ca/ for more information. Any suspected cases of plagiarism will be forwarded to the Senate Discipline Committee.

textbook:

Robert W. Sebesta, programming the World Wide Web, 3nd edition, Addison Wesley

tutorials:

Special sessions with the TA (Dominic Standage) are held on Wednesdays, place and time TBA. You can work there on assignments and discuss problems with the TA.

Here are some basic Windows and Unix tutorials for our dal environment.

outline:

This course is a basic introduction to technology issues and in particular web-centric programming for electronic commerce students without previous CS or programming background. We cover some basic networking, web programming and cryptopgraphy topics, including introductions to SHTML, basic JavaScript, PHP, SQL & Database access, XML, Session and access control.

grading scheme:

Assignments 60%

Tests 40%