Intro to IT Fall 2008
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Announcements
Office Hours
Dave Hollinger
hollingd@cs.rpi.edu
Tue 12-2pm
Amos Eaton 107
David Watson
davidwatson@praxishypermedia.com
Tue 4-5:40, Fri 4:30-6:00 <= new
Amos Eaton 107

Term Projects!

Information on term projects is available here




Fri, Nov 14th Guest Speaker:
Julia Classen: University of Minnesota and Aurora Consulting
The US Nonprofit Sector

   Required Reading:

Overview and executive summary: The state of the Independent, pages 3-19. In The New Nonprofit Almanac and Desk Reference. 2002. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.


Quiz #3 is on Tue, 12/3
Sample questions


 
Homework
HW Due DateAssignment
1 8/29 1:59PM IT and the Election
2 9/12 1:59PM (before class) HBR: Breakthrough Ideas for 2008
3 9/22 11:59PM Frames based Tic-Tac-Toe Board.
4 09/30 4:00PM Web Server, PHP, blogging package.
5 10/17 (before class). We Googled You Debate Prep. Document
6 10/23 before midnight. Creating a "Double Face" (Image Editing)
7 Nov 17th by 11:59PM Student Grades Database Design and SQL

Late Policy






Lecture Notes
TopicAdobe PDFLinks
Course Introduction CourseIntro.pdf  
Bits and Bytes bits.pdf  
The Internet internet.pdf   OSI Reference Model (webopedia)
  HTTP 1.1
Email protocols email.pdf   RFC 821 SMTP
  RFC 822 Internet Text Messages
  RFC 1939 POP3
  RFC 1521, RFC 1522 Mime
Intro to HTML html.pdf   HTML 4.01
  w3schools.com HTML docs
HTML Attributes attributes.pdf   HTML 4.01 Attributes
Images and HTML images.pdf  
HTML Frames frames.pdf   Sample: fset.html
  Sample: fex1.html
  Sample: fex2.html
  Frames tutorial at webreference.com
Cascading Style Sheets css.pdf   Examples from lecture notes
  Yahoo CSS Links
  CSS Level 1 specification
  CSS Level 2 specification
  CSS Reference Table from cnet.com
  CSS reference from w3schools.com
  CSS Zen Garden
XML xml.pdf   Sample XML/CSS/XSL Documents

  w3schools XML info
  validator.w3.org
XHTML xhtml.pdf   XHTML specification (w3.org)
  XHTML Wikipedia
  Intro to XHTML (w3schools.com)
HTML Forms forms.pdf   URL Encoding (w3schools.com)
  www.w3.org info on Forms
  w3schools.com Forms Reference
  Forms tutorials from htmlgoodies.com
Image Editing and Creation (Photoshop) imgedit.pdf   Gimp
  Adobe downloads
  eyes.jpg
  keyhole.jpg
More Image Editing (Photoshop) imgedit2.pdf   double_face.jpg
  Blend Modes (Wikipedia)
Web Systems websystems.pdf  
Web Sessions Sessions.pdf   Pizza Server - Hidden Fields
  Pizza Server - Hidden Field Session Key
  Pizza Server - Cookies
Intro. to Databases and SQL DatabaseIntro.pdf   Intro to IT SQL Playground
Flex flex.pdf   Flex Builder for Mac and Windows
 

Sample Code:


The Non Profit Sector np.pdf   Julia Classen: University of Minnesota and Aurora Consulting
Human-Computer Interaction hci.pdf   Ten Guidelines for User-Centered Web Design
  Ten Usability Heuristics (Jakob Nielsen)
  Good Design
Security security.pdf   Top Ten Web Vulnerabilities (2007)
ip.pdf   US Patent and Trademark Office
  Creative Commons
  Free Software Foundation



WWW Resources