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HCI Text

User-Centered Website Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach by McCracken and Woulfe. Check out the web resource page.

PHP

I suggest you purchase one of the following:

• (Available from the bookstore) PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson. SAMS. 0-672-31784-2
  The source code from this text is on the web.

• Core PHP Programming by Leon Atkinson. PHPTR. ISBN 0-13-089398-6.
  The examples and listings from this book are available

• PHP and PostgreSQL Advanced Web Programming by Ewald Geschwinde and Hans-Juergen Schoenig

The first book will be available at the bookstjore.

Javascript

Pick up any inexpensive book with some depth (Not Peachpit Press)

HTML

Use on line references. No book is necessary.

Time

Do the math. A typical three credit course meets for 150 minutes a week. During the intersession each course meets for 190 minutes a day. That means we cover more than a week's worth of material per day. If you are not ready to put that level of effort into the course, then I suggest you drop the course.

Place

Grades

• Grades are based on:
  • Tests and quizes
  • Several Software development assignments
  • Presentations
  • Projects
  • Grade will be partially subjective, based on my opinion regarding the difficulty of projects, the quality of documentation, and the depth to which the project is pursued.
• The weights of assignments will vary from assignment to assignment. The total weight of assignments will be approximately equal to 1.5 to 2.5 tests.

MS Resources

• PHP
• Apache
• An HTML Editor - I recommend CoffeeCup, but find one that you will like on Tucows.
• Perl
• FTP client for transferring files to and from your computer and the department file server. Select one from Tucows. Telnet client for logging onto one of the department's UNIX servers. Select one from Tucows.