Jordan Boyd-Graber
111B ECCS
Computer Science
Engineering Center
Boulder, CO 80309

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jbg@boydgraber.org

LBSC 690: Introduction to Information Technology

Logistics

Location	HBK 0109
Time	Mondays 17:30-20:15
Webpage	http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/teaching/LBSC_690_2012/
Online Discussion	http://piazza.com/class#fall2012/lbsc690
Videos of Lectures	Panopto (Login via "UMD ELMS")
Syllabus	https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1G43ahqIcffAmPlJniIQAUa-5YSFv67nOo-1YWIp4NrQ

People

Professor

Jordan Boyd-Graber
Hornbake 2118C
Office Hours: Monday 16:00 - 17:00, after class, and by appointment

Schedule

I will do my best to make sure that slides are posted here by 4:30 before class.

Date	Subject	Assignment Due	Lecture
9/10	Basics: Hardware and Data		[PDF]
	Readings: Kernighan, Chapters 1-3 Resources: Read up on how to create webpages on the UMD system
9/17	The Web: Moving data around the world	Assignment 0	[PDF]
	Readings: Kernighan, Chapters 8-9 The evolution of the web Resources: Network tools: DNS lookup, reverse DNS lookup, traceroute, etc. Visual traceroute Publishing Web Pages at UMD Introduction to HTML
9/24	What makes usable software?		[PDF]
	Readings: Kernighan, Chapter 6 Introduction to Usability In the beginning was the command line (Optional) Useful sites: Dive into accesibility Turn a webpage into text
10/1	HTML: Delivering text to the world	Assignment 1	[PDF]
	Readings / Reference: HTML Tutorial at W3Schools real-time HTML editor! HTML Colors [Another resource at Webmonkey] Headings, paragraphs, and line breaks Formatting text Links Images Lists Tables Another HTML coding resource List of HTML elements Table tutorial Symbols and Special Characters [reference]
10/8	CSS		[PDF]
	Readings: CSS Tutorial
10/15	Databases and Structured Data		[PDF]
	Readings: Relational Databases for Beginners (Stop at page 6) XML Tutorial Mashups (Wikipedia) Demos: XML and XSLT: Demo 1 What is XSLT? A poem coded in XML The same poem, transformed using XSLT The XSLT transform The DTD XML and XSLT: Demo 2 A business card coded in XML The same information, transformed using XSLT The XSLT transform XML and XSLT: Demo 3 A CD catalog in XML The same information, transformed using XSLT The XSLT transform
10/22	SQL	Assignment 2	[PDF]
	Readings: SqLite Tutorial Databases from Scratch
10/29	Class cancelled: Hurricane Sandy
11/5	Midterm		[PDF]
	Previous midterms 2010 2011
11/12	Programming Languages		[PDF]
	Readings: Kernighan, Ch. 4,5,7 Javascript Tutorial Demos Hello If Loop Array Select Database
11/19	Deploying and Ethics of IT Systems	Assignment 3	[PDF]
	Readings: Kernighan, Ch. 10-11
11/26	Multimedia and AI	EC	[PDF]
	Readings: Is our computers learning? Image format tutorial Librarians: Get a Job in Data Science, Make Lots of Money (Optional)
12/3	Workshop to prepare final projects
12/10	Final Project Presentation	Final Project

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