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Final Exam

Format:

• A mix of multiple choice and programming questions
• Time allowed: 90 minutes
• Open book exam
• Content: all materials convered in class and lab work

Mid-term Exam

Midterm exam and Assignment 1 results

Mid-term exam format:

Mid-term exam results

• Question: Multiple choice
• Time allowed: 45 minutes
• Closed book, no material allowed
• Content: all materials convered so far in class and lab work

Assignment 2 : Building a website of your choices

Assessment

• This assignment is worth 10% of the module

Task

You and your group are asked to build a website of your preference, e.g. a library system, online book sales, etc.

Please look at this file for members of your group. If there is anything wrong please report to me as soon as possible. A few student names are colored in blue. Please check if you are in my class.

Requirements

The website to be developed must satisfy the following requirements

• The HTML code must conform to XHTML standards
• CSS must be used to decorate the site's layouts
• JavaScript or other forms of client side scripting languages must be used to make layouts of the site dymanic
• Must use server side scripting (use languages of your choices, eg. PHP, ASP.NET, JSP, etc)
• Information about the site must be stored in some kind of databases

Due date: Wednesday, 28 May 2008

Submission

You need to demonstrate your work on the due date at C6 laboratories

• Hardcopy: A group report on the design and usage of your website
• Email submission: An softcopy of your group report, the source code of your website
  • Each of you must also submit an softcopy of your individual report, which details what you have done, as a group member, towards the overall group work
  • Please note: you may be awarded with different marks from other members of your group.

Assignment 1: Developing a MiniChat Application

Deadline extended to 10:00AM 16 April 2008

Assessment

- This assignment is worth 10% of the module

Task

You are asked to develop a MiniChat application as described in the lectures using Java. Students will work in pairs, one builds the server module, the other develops the client module.

An example MiniChat application can be downloaded here.

• Using JBuilder library
• Using purely Java Swing package

To load the code into eclipse, follow these steps:

• Unzip the source into a directory
• Open eclipse and create a project, give it a name (e.g. MiniChat)
• Right-click on the project name, select import
• On the next window, select "File System" option
• Then, select the folder where the source of MiniChat program is unzipped to
• Always ask if you want any help! But remember, try your best before asking

Some slides on Java: JDBC, Swing, Event Handling and Java IO.

Requirements

• User account management
• User group management
• A user is allowed to chat with all other users currently online, a group of users or one particular users

Due date: Extended to 10:00AM 16 April 2008

Submission

• Report on the design of your MiniChat application including: components of the application, protocol, etc.
• Source code of the program
• Demonstration of the program in the lab

Lecture time

• Wednesday: 9:05am - 11:35am

Lecture slides

• Lecture 1: Introduction to Computer Networks (Vietnamese)
• Lecture 2: Socket programming using Java (Vietnamese)
• Lecture 3: Socket programming in C (Vietnamese), MiniChat Application (Vietnamese)
• Lecture 4: Assigment 1: MiniChat Application (Vietnamese)
• Lecture 5: Web Programming at Client Side (Vietnamese)
• Lecture 6: XHTML and CSS
• Lecture 7: Web Programming at Server Side (Vietnamese)
• Lecture 8: Preparation for Exam

Assessment

• Exercises: 20%
• Mid-term exam: 20%
• Final exam: 60%

Lab work

There are three lab groups for MT04LT03:

• Group 1: Students having first names start with A to K
• Group 2: Students having first names start with L to Q
• Group 3: Students having first names start with S to Y

Lab time:

Group	Dates	Session#	Location
Group 1	Tuesday - 04/03/2008, 11/03/2008, 18/03/2008, 15/04/2008 and 06/05/2008	7, 8, 9	C6 (103 or 104)
Group 2	Wednesday - 05/03/2008, 12/03/2008, 19/03/2008, 16/04/2008 and 07/05/2008	7, 8, 9	C6 (103 or 104)
Group 3	Wednesday - 05/03/2008, 12/03/2008, 19/03/2008, 16/04/2008 and 07/05/2008	10, 11, 12	C6 (103 or 104)

Notes: There is on lecture on the week having lab work.

Lab materials:

• Eclipse: download, unzip to a folder and run. To get GUI designer plug-in for eclipse, visit: http://www.swt-designer.com/ .
• Lab 1
• Lab 2
• Lab 4
• Lab 5

References

1. Computer Networks, A.S. Tanenbaum, Prentice-Hall, Edition 3.
2. Unix network programming.
3. Winsock Programming