Computer Science 397T Syllabus for Fall 2013

Dr. Carol E. Wolf Office 215

Website: http://csis.pace.edu/~wolf E-mail: cwolf@pace.edu

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:30-3:30. Phone: 212-346-0799

Text: Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, Agile Web Development with Rails, Fourth edition, The Pragmatic Programmers, 2011

The text is available in PDF and other formats from the Pragmatic Programmers’ website, http://www.pragprog.com.

Week	Topic
1	Lecture: Three tier applications, Ruby and Rails histories Lab: Install Ruby on Rails on laptops and set up an application using scaffold
2	Lecture: Ruby language, Lab: Cascading Style Sheets, Seeds
3	Lecture: Model-View-Controller paradigm in a Rails project, Views Lab: Validation and Testing
4	Lecture: Controller and ERB, more on Ruby Lab: Controller, Views, Forms and Routes
5	Lecture: Databases, models and migrations Lab: Add an image column and modify views
6	Lecture: More HTML forms Lab: Add radio buttons, checkboxes and choice boxes to forms
7	Lecture: Controller and routes Lab: The home page controller: list and find
8	Lecture: A page and login for the manager Lab: The manager’s controller: create, update and delete
9	Lecture: Database design and related tables Lab: A library with books and borrowers
10	Lecture: Sessions and security Lab: A shopping cart for the store
11	Lecture: Sending Email from a Rails Application, XML, JSON and Ajax Lab: Checking out and sending email
12	Lecture: Introduction to SQL, Apache and Java Server Beans
13	Presentations

Learning objectives:

1. Students will understand the model-view-controller paradigm and be able to use it to create web applications.

2. Students will learn enough of the Ruby language to enable them to program the project’s controller.

3. Students will use HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript to enhance their web pages.

4. Students will understand basic database concepts.