CIS336 (also Semester 2 of CIS219, CIS221 and IT226)
Website design, implementation and management
Semester 2, 2006-7

Some useful links
Suggested reading
Course works
Lectures
Workshops

Some useful links

• CIS336 Syllabus
• XML
  • W3C XML Activity Main page
  • XML Core Working Group Public Page
  • XSL Working Group Public Page
  • XML Query (XQuery) Working Group Public Page
  • XML Schema Working Group Public Page
  • Current specification of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
  • Current specification of Namespaces in XML 1.0
  • Current specification of XHTML 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language
  • W3 Schools

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Suggested reading

Some of this course will be based on the following text:

Møller, Anders and Schwartzbach, Michael I. (2006). An Introduction to XML and Web Technologies. Addison-Wesley, Harlow, England. ISBN: 0-321-26966-7.

This book has a useful companion web site, located at http://www.brics.dk/ixwt/.

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Course works

There will be two course works set for this course.

The first coursework will be set at the beginning of the third workshop which will start at 16:00 on Thursday 25 January and it will have to be delivered by the end of the fifth workshop which will end at 18:00 on Thursday 15 February. You will work on this coursework during the third, fourth and fifth workshops.

The second coursework will be set at the beginning of the eighth workshop which will start at 16:00 on Thursday 8 March and it will have to be delivered by the end of the 10th workshop which will end at 18:00 on Thursday 22 March. You will work on this second coursework during the eighth, ninth and tenth workshops.

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Lectures

• Lecture 1: Introduction
• Lecture 2: XML Documents
• Lecture 3: XPath
• Lecture 4: Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
• Lecture 5: XML Schema
• Lecture 6: XSLT
• Lecture 7: HTTP and Web Programming in Java
• Lecture 8: Servlets
• Lecture 9: JavaServer Pages (JSP)

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Workshops

• Workshop 1 Exercise 1 (Model answers)
• Workshop 1 Exercise 2
• Workshop 2 Exercises
• Workshop 3 Exercises (assessed)
• Workshop 4 Exercises (assessed)
• Workshop 6 Exercises
• Workshop 8 Exercise (Assessed)
• Workshop 9 Exercises (Assessed)
• Alternative exercises for second assessed coursework

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