According to a study, students in programming courses learn much more by building large-scale exercises instead of many small-scale test programs.

• This course focuses on web programming and content implementation instead of web page design such as production of graphics.


• Four exercises will be assigned. They are individual exercises instead of team exercises.


• The weights of the four exercises are as follows: I. HTML (05% campus / 06% online), II. CSS (05% campus / 06% online), III. ASP.NET (12% campus / 14% online), and IV. ASP.NET (16% campus / 20% online).


• A web system involves a wide variety of tools and languages. Exercises have to strictly follow the specifications for the reason of fairness.


• Microsoft ASP.NET [Visual Studio (Community)] and Microsoft Access DBMS will be used.


• Some commercial packages/tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver may not be used because of the following reasons:
  
  
  • Students need to learn how things work. Using commercial packages/tools may not help students’ understanding of the subjects.
  
  
  • Universities normally do not teach commercial packages/tools, which are changing constantly.
  
  
  • Those packages/tools are expensive. For example, 30 educational copies of Dreamweaver cost $4,047.90 in 2007.


• All exercises will be graded off-line because of limited IT supports.


• Campus students have to submit the printouts of the source code, while the online students can send me the code via emails.


• To submit the Exercise I, complete the HTML Files Submission and HTML Implementation data. The exercises will NOT be graded if they are not completed.


• To submit the Exercise II, complete the HTML and CSS Files Submission and CSS Implementation data. The exercises will NOT be graded if they are not completed.


• Exercises III & IV require demonstrations to the instructor individually, so misunderstanding would be minimized. The instructor will prepare a set of test data to be used by all students. An appointment is needed in advance.


• For Exercises III & IV demonstrations, students may save the whole website in a flash drive or on the cloud and demo it at a classroom or conference-room machine. For online students, Skype may be used and the instructor’s Skype ID is whu678 .


• Exercise IV is an extension of Exercise III, but students still have to submit them separately. One exercise can not be used to cover two exercises.


• Absolutely no extra points will be given after grading.