David J. Malan, Instructor
malan@post.harvard.edu
http://www.cs.harvard.edu/malan/
Today's websites are increasingly dynamic. Pages are no longer static HTML files but instead generated by scripts and database calls. User interfaces are more seamless, with technologies like Ajax replacing traditional page reloads. This course teaches students how to build dynamic websites with Ajax and with Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP), one of today's most popular frameworks. Students learn how to set up domain names with DNS, how to structure pages with XHTML and CSS, how to program in JavaScript and PHP, how to configure Apache and MySQL, how to design and query databases with SQL, and how to use Ajax with both XML and JSON. The course discusses issues of security, scalability, and cross-browser support.
These lectures were filmed in the Science Center and Harvard Hall.
If you have questions or would like to discuss the material with others, you may want to join the Google Group at right.
Sections (otherwise known as "recitations" or "precepts" at other universities) supplement lectures. Led by Dan Armendariz and Keito Uchiyama '11, these sections were filmed at 1 Story Street.
Below are projects (i.e., homework assignments). To simulate cs75.net on your own computer, we recommend that you download and install XAMPP, which will put Apache, MySQL, PHP, and phpMyAdmin on your own computer, where you can then implement Projects 1 through 3.
If you have questions or would like to discuss the material with others, you may want to join the Google Group at right.
Computer Science E-75 is a course at Harvard Extension School.
Even if you are not a student at Harvard, you are welcome to "take" this course via cs75.tv by following along via the Internet. (The course's own website is at www.cs75.net.) Available at left are videos of lectures along with PDFs of projects. Sample solutions to the latter are not available, but if you have questions or would like to discuss the material with others, do join the course's Google Group.
If you're a teacher, you are welcome to adopt or adapt these materials for your own course, per the license.
If you'd like to take this course for real (on Harvard's campus or via the Internet) in order to receive feedback on work, grades, and a transcript, the course will next be offered through Harvard Extension School in Fall 2010. You can register online as of August 2010.
Special thanks to Chris Thayer and Harvard Extension School for the course's videos.
djm
Copyright © 2008 – 2010, David J. Malan
This course's content is licensed by David J. Malan under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you are not only welcome to watch, listen to, download, and/or read this content,
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cs75-discuss |
Have a question about the course (even if you're not a student at Harvard)? Want to field questions from others? Join cs75-discuss, the course's Google Group!
So that folks (like you!) tuning into this course via cs75.tv have a place to turn with questions, we've created a Google Group called cs75-discuss, which is like a message board and mailing list rolled into one. (If unfamiliar with Google Groups, you can take the tour.)
Once you've joined, you'll be able to email the group at cs75-discuss@googlegroups.com and browse past discussions at http://groups.google.com/group/cs75-discuss/topics.
We just created this group, so it's pretty quiet at the moment, but the course's staff will keep an eye on it for now!
So that this course is more accessible to individuals with disabilities and to individuals for whom English is not their native language, we are in the process of transcribing this course's videos in English and subtitling them in other languages.
But we need your help translating!
If you would like to translate one or more videos on this site into another language, please let David know at malan@post.harvard.edu! Thanks to dotSUB.com, it's easy to do so (provided you know the language!). If curious as to what the process would be like, watch this tutorial on how to translate a video on dotSUB.