INFM 603 - Information
Technology and Organizational Context
Sept 1
Topic: Introduction:
Information Technology and Context
For Sept. 8
Topic: Introduction to Web Pages/HTML
Elisabeth
Robson and Eric Freeman, Head First HTML and CSS (2nd Edition), O'Reilly Media, 2012, available through ProQuest
Safari at UMCP. Chapters 1-5.
Alternative: Andy Harris, HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One for Dummies. Wiley, 2010, ISBN 9780470537558. Chapters 1-7.
For Sept. 15
Topic: HTML/CSS
Robson
and Freeman, Chapters 7-8, skim 9-11, 13-14.
Alternative: Harris, all of Book II, skim
Book III.
See
also http://www.w3schools.com/css/
and the “Try it Yourself” tool, and the Bootstrap
tutorial and examples at http://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/default.asp
You
may also want to look at the w3schools info on Responsive Web Design and Media
Queries
For Sept. 22
Topic: Introduction to
Programming and Data Structures
Eric
T. Freeman and Elisabeth Robson, Head First JavaScript Programming, O'Reilly Media, 2014, Chapters 1-2, skim
3-7.
Alternative: Harris, Book IV.
From
the w3schools site, it’s worth visiting the http://www.w3schools.com/js/
introduction
and again working with the “Try it Yourself” tool.
For Sept. 29
Topic: Relational
Databases and Data Models
Lynn
Beighley, Head First SQL, O'Reilly Media, 2007, Chapters 1, 4, 7.
Alternative: Harris, Book VI, Chs.
1, 3.
For Oct. 6
Topic: Database
Implementation
Beighley, Chs. 2, 8 .
Lynn
Beighley and Michael Morrison, Head First PHP and MySQL, O'Reilly Media, 2008, Chs.
1-2; skim 3-4.
Alternative: Harris, Book VI, Chs.
2, 4.
At
this point you should also be familiar with the on-line documentation for PHPMyadmin and the MySQL documentation available at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/
Especially
Tutorial, Data Types, Functions and Operators, and SQL Statement Syntax
For Oct. 13
Topic: PHP and
Server-Side Scripting
Beighley and Morrison, Chs. 1-4
Alternative: Harris, Book V, Chs.
1, 2, 3, 7.
For Oct. 27
Topic: Advanced
Programming Topics
Freeman
and Robson, Chs.
4-6
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ajax_intro.asp
and the
next few sections up to “Live Search”
Alternative: Harris, Book IV, Chs.
4-5 and Book VII, Chs. 1-2
For Nov. 3
Topic: Content
Management Systems
Brian Messenlehner and Jason
Coleman. Building
Web Apps with WordPress,
Chs. 1-4.
https://cmsreport.com/articles/2015-wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal-infographic-13720
See
also https://codex.wordpress.org/New_To_WordPress_-_Where_to_Start
For Nov. 10
Topic: The IT Business
A Survey of Agile
Development Methodologies