Note: Unless noted differently, all Wednesday classes will meet in Lib 1612, and all Saturday classes will be in Lib 1706. Seminar rooms for Wednesday will be 1507 and 1508. For Saturday, seminar rooms will be 1505 and 1600.
Note: In the following, "PHP and MySQL" refers to "PHP and MySQL Web Development" by Welling and Thompson
Note: Major schedule change! Due to the current political situation, a good number of people were going to be missing on Saturday, February 15th. We will NOT be meeting that day. We WILL be meeting on Saturday, the 22nd.
Note: We'll be meeting in the ACC on Saturday, the 22nd
Modified: 03.05.03 Added PHP Session assignment and due dates that were missing
Modified: 02.26.03 Added PHP Images and Security assigments and removed Detailed Design II from February 26th
Modified: 02.16.03 Added pointer to the PHP/MySQL assignment for February 12th
Modified: 02.10.03 Deleted references to possible SOS presentations on February 12 and February 26. It will happen spring quarter. Also added group work for February 12.
Modified: 02.10.03 Corrected the class time for the Saturday, March 8 class
Modified: 01.26.03 Switched the schedules for January 29 and February 5, since the Liberal Arts Forum was scheduled for the wrong day.
Modified: 01.22.03 Added MySQL/PHP Listings and Exercises
[For Seminar January 18] Read The Strange Disappearance of Civic America and Beyond Bowling Together: SocioTechnical Capital.
[For Seminar January 18] Journal question #1: "What challenges and/or opportunities do networked communication systems offer for promoting social capital?"
[For new students] Student Profiles & Covenant (done in class)
[For new students] Student Profile & Covenant
Winter Syllabus, 4-credit option information.
Read Chapters 7, 8 & 9 of "PHP and MySQL"
Program Flow Assignment
NOTE:Be sure to have your preliminary design document for this class!
Civic Intelligence Analysis (Due February 15):
Read the full-length version of Doug's paper:
Cultivating Society's Civic Intelligence:
Patterns for a New 'World Brain'.
(A PDF version is available at: http://www.scn.org/commnet/civic-intelligence.pdf)
Write a 2-3 page journal on the
following:
This assignment is intended to explore the idea of civic
intelligence and, also, to help develop the theory of civic
intelligence. Critique the idea of civic intelligence by articulating what
you believe to be its greatest flaw(s). Please discuss why you think the
problem(s) you've identified is / are important (including supporting
evidence). Please also discuss how you think the theory could be modified
to address the flaw(s) you mention or whether you think the problems are
insurmountable. You may also choose to tackle this related issue
instead: Identify the biggest challenge(s) faced by civic intelligence and
discuss how civic intelligence might be used to face that challenge.
DB/MySQL #1
Read chapters 10 & 11 of "PHP and MySQL"
Seminar readings
Program Flow Assignment
Journal question #1
[For Seminar February 1] Read "The Strength of Weak Ties" by Mark Granovetter [handout]; Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg; and networks article by Barry Wellman [TBD]
[For Seminar February 1] Journal Question #2: Using an event from your life or something you read or heard about, explore how the outcome supported or weakened Granovetter's ideas about strong and weak ties.
PHP/DB/MySQL #1
MySQL/PHP Listings and MySQL Exercises
DB/MySQL #1
"The Strength of Weak Ties", Mark Granovetter
Finite state machine/program flow/pseudocode assignment -- work on this and share your url with the class via the listserv (be sure to credit the authors)
Read chapter 5 of "PHP and MySQL"
Read chapters 12 & 13 of "PHP and MySQL"
PHP/DB/MySQL #1
Seminar readings
Journal Question #2
NOTE: By this point in the quarter, each project should have their database design done, the preliminary design finalized (including Usage Scenarios, DB design, screen shots, functional descriptions)
Read chapters 14 & 15 of "PHP and MySQL"
Read MySQL handout
Finite state machine/program flow/pseudocode assignment
Read chapter 5 of "PHP and MySQL"
Civic Intelligence reading
Civic Intelligence journal
PHP Security
Read chapter 19 of "PHP and MySQL"
Read chapters 14 & 15 of "PHP and MySQL"
Read MySQL handout
[For Seminar March 8] Read articles from Steve Hoffman and/or Steve Zeltzer [Handout]
[For Seminar March 8] Journal Question #3: Is the government going too far or not far enough in the realm of civic security and personal privacy? What should be done to set things right in your opinion and how should we go about doing it?
Read chapter 20 of "PHP and MySQL"
PHP Images
PHP Security PHP_Security_Assignment.htm
Read chapter 19 of "PHP and MySQL"
PHP Security assignment
Read chapter 20 of "PHP and MySQL"
PHP session control
Project notebook (requirements, project plan, detailed design)