Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30-11:45am, L008 Art and Design Building
Grades, Readings available as pdfs: Blackboard| Sunitha Thummala | Chenhao Mu |
| sthumma3@gmu.edu | cmu@masonlive.gmu.edu |
| Office: 4456 Engineering Building | Office: 4456 Engineering Building |
| Office hours: Wednesdays 10:30am - 12:30pm | Office hours: 1 - 3pm Wednesday |
This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to web development, covering front end development, back end development, and user interface design.
Learning OutcomesRequired Textbooks: None
If you have a general question about an assignment or course content, first check piazza to see if someone has already answered your question. If not, post your question in piazza, where your question may be answered by other students or the course staff. For questions about grades, contact one of the TAs by email.
Office hours are times that we commit to being in our office, door open, first come, first served. You do not need an appointment, and no appointments are accepted. If you cannot make the scheduled office hours, then we can try to set up an appointment. Please note that I am seldom available after 5:00 pm. We will inform you in class or on the discussion board if we have to miss office hours.
There are no required readings for this course. Each lecture will have suggested readings that contain additional background material.
This course will use Piazza for posting the schedule and all assignments and announcements. Additionally, we will use Piazza for a discussion board. Information for accessing our class will be provided on the first day of class.
Grades will be available through Blackboard.
Most lectures will feature interactive activities that support the material being presented. You are strongly encouraged to bring your laptop to class so that you can participate. Your participation grade will be based on your participation in in-class activities.
There will be a short closed-book in class quiz every week. Quizzes will not be announced in advance. The lowest three quiz grades will be dropped. The quizzes together will count for 20% of the course grade.
There will be a comprehensive final exam which will be closed-book in-class. There will be no midterm exam.
Missed quizzes cannot be made up. 10% will be deducted for late HW assignments and late HW assignments will only be accepted for 24 hours after the due date. HW assignments submitted more than 24 hours late will receive a zero. If you’re worried about being busy around the time of a HW submission, please plan ahead and get started early.
The homeworks in the course will be in the form of a project. Throughout the term, you will work in a pair to develop a dynamic web app, implementing a front end, back end, and evaluating and improving its usability.
You will be working in two-person pairs on all homework assignments. Beyond your pair, we encourage you to have high-level discussions with other students in the class about the assignments. However, we require that when your pair turns in an assignment, it is only the work of your pair. That is, copying any part of another pair’s assignment is strictly prohibited. You are free to reuse example code found on the Internet (e.g. via StackOverflow) provided that it is attributed. If you are concerned that by reusing and attributing that copied code it may appear that you didn’t complete the assignment yourself, then please raise a discussion with the instructor or TA.
GMU is an Honor Code university; please see the Office for Academic Integrity for a full description of the code and the honor committee process, and the Computer Science Department’s Honor Code Policies regarding programming assignments. The principle of academic integrity is taken very seriously and violations are treated gravely. What does academic integrity mean in this course? Essentially this: when you are responsible for a task, you will perform that task. When you rely on someone else’s work in an aspect of the performance of that task, you will give full credit in the proper, accepted form. Another aspect of academic integrity is the free play of ideas. Vigorous discussion and debate are encouraged in this course, with the firm expectation that all aspects of the class will be conducted with civility and respect for differing ideas, perspectives, and traditions. When in doubt (of any kind) please ask for guidance and clarification.
If you have a documented learning disability or other condition that may affect academic performance you should: 1) make sure this documentation is on file with the Office for Disability Services to determine the accommodations you need; and 2) talk with me to discuss your accommodation needs.
Students must use their MasonLIVE email account to receive important University information, including messages related to this class. See MasonLive for more information.