ECMM 6010: Technology Issues in Electronic Commerce (Fall 2006)

Cryptography slides

Catalog example: sale.xml and catalog2html.xsl

Project, second part

Here are the letter examples to demonstrate xml technology, letter.xml, letter.dtd, letter2html.xsl, and the Xschema version letter2.xml, letter.xsd

First part of web slides

Project, first part

Network slides

Assignment 3 is due Thursday, Oct 5 by 6pm.

Assignment 2 is due Thursday, Sept 29 by 6pm.

Our Wednesday classes are now at 1:30pm instead of 8:30am at the same location.

The Killam lecture series 2006 might be of interest to you.

Introduction slides

Assignment 1 is due Tuesday Sept 19 by 6pm.

Assignments, lecture slides and other news will be posted here. Please check frequently

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. Specifically we will introduce and discuss XHTML,XML, basic JavaScript, PHP, SQL & Database access, session and access control, and web services. 

Robert W. Sebesta, Programming the World Wide Web

I will use the third edition. This text was also used last year, so there might be some used copies around.

We are mainly going through the follwing chapters: 1,2,4,5,8, 12 14

All but one assignments have to be passed in order to be elidigble for the final project. The final grade will be based on a project, which includes a presentation and final paper.

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.