If you wish, you may download a printable version of the original syllabus on canvas. However, all of that information is also on this web page and the web page will be updated as the course proceeds, whereas the printed syllabus will not.

Office: ISE 234D
Email: espositof AT slu DOT edu
Phone: 314-977-2334
Homepage: http://www.cs.slu.edu/~esposito

Lectures

Time and Days: 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm Tuesdays and Thursays

Where: McDonnell Douglas Hall (MDD) 1075 (Campus Map)

Date Range: Aug 23 - Dec 15, 2023

Though attendance in class is not always explicitly required, it is certainly always expected. Lectures are designed to be interactive and class participation is most welcome. These meetings will offer learning opportunities that cannot be recreated purely from readings.

I will occasionally depart from the reading material and its flow to explain more modern notions of networking currently under active research (topics that haven't made it in any book yet), or more details on more standard topics. I may not always provide backup lecture notes on such additional details. That said, for those who miss a lecture, information on the lecture topic can often be found on the course schedule web page.

Office Hours and Tutoring

Wed and Thu: by appointment
Room: TBD

Tutoring Resources at SLU: Our department employees many CS majors to help out in our department labs. Those students are also available to provide assistance with course materials at such times. Our department webpage maintains a current list of available times and locations. As stated in the section on Academic Integrity below, these tutors are an acceptable resource for help, yet you should still document both the source of the help as well as the extent, if significant.

Required Resources

This class uses online resources, and handouts. There is no textbook for this course.

Course Overview and Learning Objectives

This course will cover introductory notions behind the technology of the web, from the structure of the Internet to the design of web pages (web development). Students will learn principles of the web as a network, and practical basics for web builders. The web building component introduces some of the fundamental languages of (dynamic) web programming as well as other popular building tools, leading to each student creating his/her own web site over the term.

Course Prerequisites and Expectations

Learning Objectives

Preliminary Lab Outline (Web Development)

Grading Criteria

The project is a website built with the tools covered in class plus an essay.
Project grading criteria will be posted.

Letter Grades

Student percentage above 90% will result in a grade of A or better.
Student percentage above 87% will result in a grade of A- or better.
Student percentage above 83% will result in a grade of B+ or better.
Student percentage above 80% will result in a grade of B or better.
Student percentage above 77% will result in a grade of B- or better.
Student percentage above 73% will result in a grade of C+ or better.
Student percentage above 70% will result in a grade of C or better.
Student percentage above 67% will result in a grade of C- or better.
Student percentage above 60% will result in a grade of D or better.
Student percentage below 60% will result in a grade of F.

Late submission policy

Assignments submitted late will have a score reduced of 20%

per day for the first

days after the deadline. No submissions will be accepted after the second day. Upon request to the Dean of Students (http://www.slu.edu/dean-of-students-office), students shall be given up to five (5) consecutive days (not including weekends or holidays) of excused absence for bereavement.

Technology in class

Student Success Center

In recognition that people learn in a variety of ways and that learning is influenced by multiple factors (e.g., prior experience, study skills, learning disability), resources to support student success are available on campus. The Student Success Center assists students with academic and career related services, and is located in the Busch Student Center (Suite, 331) and the School of Nursing (Suite, 114). Students can visit www.slu.edu/success to learn more about:

University Writing Services Support

We encourage you to take advantage of university writing services in the Student Success Center; getting feedback benefits writers at all skill levels. Trained writing consultants can help with writing projects, multimedia projects, and oral presentations. University Writing Services offers one-on-one consultations that address everything from brainstorming and developing ideas to crafting strong sentences and documenting sources. For more information, call 314-977-3484 or visit http://bit.ly/1gAKC9H.

Disability Services Academic Accommodations

Students with a documented disability who wish to request academic accommodations must contact Disability Services to discuss accommodation requests and eligibility requirements. Once successfully registered, the student also must notify the course instructor that they wish to access accommodations in the course.

Please contact Disability Services, located within the Student Success Center, at Disability_services@slu.edu or 314.977.3484 to schedule an appointment. Confidentiality will be observed in all inquiries. Once approved, information about the student’s eligibility for academic accommodations will be shared with course instructors via email from Disability Services and viewed within Banner via the instructor’s course roster.

Note: Students who do not have a documented disability but who think they may have one are encouraged to contact to Disability Services.

Title IX

Saint Louis University and its faculty are committed to supporting our students and seeking an environment that is free of bias, discrimination, and harassment. If you have encountered any form of sexual misconduct (e.g. sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, domestic or dating violence), we encourage you to report this to the University. If you speak with a faculty member about an incident of misconduct, that faculty member must notify SLU’s Title IX coordinator, Anna R. Kratky (DuBourg Hall, room 36; akratky@slu.edu; 314-977-3886) and share the basic facts of your experience with her. The Title IX coordinator will then be available to assist you in understanding all of your options and in connecting you with all possible resources on and off campus.

Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is honesty, truthful and responsible conduct in all academic endeavors. The mission of Saint Louis University is “the pursuit of truth for the greater glory of God and for the service of humanity.” Accordingly, all acts of falsehood demean and compromise the corporate endeavors of teaching, research, health care, and community service via which SLU embodies its mission. The University strives to prepare students for lives of personal and professional integrity, and therefore regards all breaches of academic integrity as matters of serious concern.

The governing University-level Academic Integrity Policy can be accessed on the Provost's Office website. A more detailed policy statement is given by the College of Arts & Science, also applying to this course.

In addition to those general statements, we wish to discuss our policy in the context of this course. When it comes to learning and understanding the general course material, you may certainly use other reference materials and you may have discussions with other students in this class or other people from outside of this class. This openness pertains to material from the text, practice problems, general syntax and use of any language or other computing tools.

However, when it comes to work that is submitted for this course, you are not to use or to search for any direct or indirect assistance from unauthorized sources, including but not limited to:

other students in this class
past students, whether from this school or other schools
other acquaintances
other texts or books
online information other than that referenced by course materials

Acceptable sources of information include consultations with the instructor, teaching assistants, or members of organized tutoring centers on campus, as well as any materials explicitly authorized for a project description. Even in these cases, if you receive significant help you should make sure to document both the source of the help as well as the extent.

On certain assignment, we may explicitly allow students to work in groups. In this case, conversations between partners is both permissible and required. Furthermore, both students are expected to contribute significantly to the development of the submitted work. It is unethical to allow a partner to “sign on” to a submission if that partner did not significantly contribute to the work.

Any violations of these policies will be dealt with seriously. Penalties will apply as well to a student who is aiding another student. Any such violations will result in a minimum penalty of a zero on the given assignment that cannot be dropped, and severe or repeated violations will result in an immediate failing grade in the course. Furthermore all incidents will be reported in writing to the Department and/or the Dean, as per the College procedure.

CSCI-4930/5930 Web Programming

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