News items will be posted here in reverse chronological order.

Fri Nov. 26, 10

All the upcoming lectures (starting Monday the 29th) will be held in the Maxwell Lab (CSEB-1002).

Sat Nov. 20, 10

The test next week will be Tue 11:00-13:00 in CSEB-3057. The scope of the test is the three Client-Side-Side topics (CSS, JavaScript and DOM).

Thu Nov. 11, 10

Lab#3 has been posted.

Tue Nov. 9, 10

The Department will be conducting Course Evaluation on Wed Nov 17 and Lab Evaluation on Tue Nov 16.

Wed Oct. 27, 10

The test next week will be Tue 11:00-13:00 in CSEB-3057. The TA will be available in the lab 10:00 to 11:00 to answer any last-minute questions about Lab#2. Two types of questions will be on the test: the first type probes your understanding of the principles and you answer by typing in your answer. The second focuses on programming and you answer by submitting a program. The programming questions are based on Lab #2, and hence, you are advised to complete its implementation and have it saved in your home directory. The questions might ask you something about your own implementation or might give you an implementation and ask you to make changes to it. The scope of the test is the three Server-Side topics (with the infrastructure topics indirectly involved).

Thu Oct. 21, 10

The marks of Test#1 (out of 117) are now available on ePost. The papers will be returned in Friday's lecture. If you have a question or concern about the marking then see the TA on Tue during Lab #2.

Fri Oct. 1, 10

The test next week will be Tue 11:00-13:00 in CSEB-3057. You will use the same computing environment you used in Lab#1, i.e. Windows machines in normal (not labtest) mode. Two type of questions will be on the test: conceptual (what/why) questions based on the ELO's and skill (how) questions based on Lab#1. The scope is the three Infrastructure topics covered up to today's lecture (i.e. next Monday's lecture is out of scope). The questions are web based and you answer them and submit them on the web as well. Click “Test #1” in the weekly schedule (using the same authentication you used in Lab#1 to access the database) to see sample questions of the two types.

Mon Sept 27, 10

The first Lab is tomorrow, 11:00-14:00 in CSEB-3057. It is important that you complete this lab because the applied part of next week's test is based on it. It is highly recommended that you go to the lab tomorrow and familiarize yourself with its platform and software since you will be using this very lab to take the test.

Mon Sept 27, 10

As discussed in lecture today, we are adopting HTML 5 in this course. The elements covered in the book are all part of HTML 5 but you need to know a few additional elements unique to HTML 5. The examples covered in class (see Resources) expose these extra elements.

Sun Sept 19, 10

Lab #1 has been posted; start working on it! You can do the lab in CSEB1002 or in fact from any machine anywhere. All you need is to have the FireFox browser with the Firebug plug-in (both of which can be downloaded for free). To do the database part it is easiest to simply ssh to your cse account on red and use the username student and password secret. To connect to the database, issue the command ij and then connect by typing: <pre> connect 'jdbc:derby://indigo.cse.yorku.ca:9999/CSE;user=student;password=secret'; </pre> After connecting, you can issue any SQL query. You can do so in one line or on multiple lines as long as you terminate the query with a semicolon. Once done, type exit; to quit the ij utility.

Mon Sept 13, 10

Welcome to CSE2041 !