INFS 650 – MICROSOFT .NET DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS

SPRING 2009

 


PROF. R. BAUM

OFFICE: 335 S&T II

DEPARTMENT OFFICE: 430 S&T II

PHONE: (703) 993-1530; DEPARTMENT FAX: (703) 993-1710

EMAIL: RBAUM@GMU.EDU. ALWAYS include a subject title.

CLASS WEB SITE: http://courses.gmu.edu

OFFICE HOURS: Room 335, S&T II, Thursday, 3:30 - 4:00 pm and by appointment

 

PREREQUISITE: SWE 510; INFS 590 (may be taken concurrently)

Principles and methods of building commercial applications within a high-level framework. Tools for system construction are considered, along with a variety of programming languages, component integration, and design methods. Applications are investigated through program construction in varied settings, such as database systems, graphical user interfaces, and prototyping. Programming projects are required.

This course will primarily use Microsoft .Net. Both the Visual Basic and C# programming language will be covered. All assignments will be PC based.  All student questions are encouraged

 

REQUIRED TEXTS:

Class Notes, Course Assignments and Class Files from the class website

 

OPTIONAL SUGGESTED TEXT:

C# and VB.NET Conversion, Josa Mojica, O’Reilly

 

FINAL EXAM: Thursday, May 7, 4:30 - 5:45 P.M.

 

GRADE: The course grade will be determined as follows:

 

           COMPUTER PROGRAMS:             800 POINTS

           FINAL:                                             200 POINTS

           TOTAL:                                          1000 POINTS

  (The program total may decrease if fewer programs are assigned).

The grading scale range is:

900 - 1000             A

800 - 899               B

700 - 799               C

600 - 699               D

< 600                     F


 

ALL EXAMS MUST BE TAKEN AT THE SCHEDULED TIMES.

 

CLASS ATTENDANCE: Class attendance will not be taken.  However, the student is responsible for all material presented in class,

and any changes made in class, including modifications in material covered, homework, examinations, or course schedule.

 

PROGRAM ASSIGNMENTS: Students are expected to complete all programming assignments on their own. 

While obtaining general information from other students is permitted,

IT IS NOT PERMITTED TO DIRECTLY COPY FROM ANOTHER STUDENT'S PROGRAM

OR TO COLLABORATE ON AN ASSIGNMENT. This will be STRICTLY ENFORCED.

BOTH THE PROGRAM LISTING AND PRINTOUT MUST BE SUBMITTED FOR THE PROGRAM TO BE GRADED.

A PROGRAM WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IF IT DOES NOT RUN (I.E. PRODUCE OUTPUT).

Program assignments are due at the beginning of the class period on the due date or at the class break,

but NOT at the end of class.

Except for the last program, a program will be accepted UP TO ONE WEEK LATE ONLY (the next class)

with a late penalty of 5 points per day (including weekends).

The LAST program is due the last day of class. Electronic submissions can NOT be accepted.

Please PRINT name, class, and student ID on assignments, and STAPLE pages together.

 

If an assignment is submitted late, either fax it or give it to the ISE Secretary and ask for the date to be placed on it.

Do NOT slide ANY work under an office door.

Assignments should be picked up the week after submission in case of problems. It may not be possible to consider problems otherwise.

 

If you are on any travel (business or personal), ALL DEADLINES still apply.

 

Note:    No side conversations are permitted.

           ALL cellular telephones MUST be turned off during class.

 

COURSE WORKLOAD:  This course will require a great deal of work (well beyond the usual 3 hour course),

due to the programming assignments and the amount of text material covered.

 

INCOMPLETE grades will NOT be given for this course.

 

Class Files

The files used in the class lecture notes can be obtained by downloading from the INFS 650 class website.

Also included in the class files is an Assignments subdirectory containing all the files needed for the assignments.

 

The dates listed in the course outline are tentative.  The schedule may be revised at the discretion of the instructor.

The lecture notes should be brought to each lecture for reference.

 

                                          COURSE SCHEDULE

 

 

WEEK      TOPIC                                                            ASSIGNMENT         POINTS

 

Jan 22        Introduction to Using Visual Studio and .Net

                                                                             

Jan 29        Syntax (Visual Basic and C#)                           

 

Feb 5         Control Structures; Structured Exceptions         Assignment 1               30                   

 

Feb 12       Subprograms; Redirection                                 Assignment 2               50

 

Feb 19       Object-Based Programming                              Assignment 3               70

 

Feb 26       Streams; Array Classes; Collections                             

 

Mar 5         Inheritance                                                        Assignment 4               90

 

Mar12        NO CLASS — SPRING BREAK                                                                  

 

Mar 19       Object-Oriented Programming                          Assignment 5               100

 

Mar 26       Class Libraries; Windows Programming                                               

 

Apr 2         Windows Programming Continued;                   Assignment 6                100

                  Database Processing

      

Apr 9         Multiple Forms; Designed Controls;                  Assignment 7                120                       

                  Intro to Web Programming;

                  Intro to ASP.NET

 

Apr 16       Graphics; Components                                      Assignment 8                120

 

Apr 23       Deployment;                                                                                        

                  Overview of Application Security

 

Apr 30       Web Services and WCF; ASP.NET AJAX;     Assignment 9                  120

                  XML Basics; Intro to LINQ

 

May 7        FINAL                                                                                                   200