CS2a: Introduction to Computers, Summer 2002

Text

Introduction to Interactive Web Design by Tim Hickey
(This is a rough draft of a textbook. The chapters are being revised as we cover them in class.)
Class Lecture notes, revised and extended my Ming Ming Hao

Software and Links for the course

TATool. An early release of a groupware tool for online TA'ing (written in Jscheme).

The Scheme evaluator servlet

Student Webpages

Registered Students Webpages

TA Office Hours

Homework

HW1 due Wed 6/19/2002 at 9:00 am.
HW2 due Frid 6/28/2002 at 5:00 pm.
HW3 due Wed 7/3/2002 at 5:00 pm.

Quizzes and Practice Quizzes

Practice for Quiz1
- Aut01 Quiz 2 and answer
- Aut01 Quiz 3 and answer
Practice for Quiz2
- practice quiz This servlet sends email to tjhickey@brandeis.edu from the address in the "email" field.
- answer -- in pquiz1.servlet -- note we might also have your servlet include checkbox data, or check a password, or anything else from hw2.servlet. Still it will be about the size of this practice quiz.... (perhaps a little bigger).

Exams and Practice Exams

Important Links

Grading

30% -- Exam
50% -- 4 Homework assignments
20% -- 4 Quizzes

Syllabus

Week 1

The Internet
Web pages: HTML and CSS
Copyright/Intellectual Property

Week 2

Server-side programming: scheme servlets
Logs and counters
Server-side Security and Privacy

Weeks 3,4

Client-side programming: scheme applets
Client-side Security and Sandboxes
Computability

Week 5

Operating Systems and Computer Architecture
Computer Chips