CMPT 470

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CMPT 470

• Instructor
• Wo-Shun Luk, ASB 10829, woshun_at_cs.sfu.ca
• Office Hours
• 330 430 M W F
• TA
• Henry Zhang, hzhangb_at_cs.sfu.ca
• Office Hours (_at_ASB 9804)
• Tue 430 530 pm
• Thur 230 330 pm

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What is 470 about?

• It is about basic concepts of various major
  components that are parts of a Web-based
  information system.
• It is about application development
• for building 3-tier systems,
• with Web as the platform,
• following a component methodology.

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Todays Application Development Environment

• 3-tier architecture
• front-end (or browser) GUI, light data
  processing.
• middle-ware business logic
• database system transaction management,
  persistence.
• Distributed objects
• COM/OLE objects, JavaBeans

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Course Plan

• General introduction to Internet and Web.
• Brief introduction to COM objects.
• HTML and Dynamic HTML. (browser)
• Internet Explorer. (browser)
• HTTP. (communication)
• Information Internet Server. (server)
• Active Server Pages/VB/Webclasses. (server)
• ActiveX Data Objects. (browser, server, and
  database)
• XML. (browser, server, and database)
• Internet Security. (browser, server and database)

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Text References

• Text (?) Professional Active Server Pages 2.0,
  A. Fedorov et al, Wrox Press Ltd, 1998 (?)
• References
• Microsoft MSDN Library.
• Other articles on the Web.

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Course Evaluation Scheme

• Homework assignment 20
• Mostly programming
• Mid-term exam 15
• Term project 30
• Final exam 35

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Software Development Platforms for 470

• Internet Explorer (IE) 4.0/5.0
• Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0
• Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
• Development Tools
• Visual Basic 6.0
• Active Server Pages 2.0
• Office 2000
• FrontPage 2000 (no support)
• InterDev 6.0 (no support)