Welcome To CIS115 Introduction to Programming & Logic

Staff & Resources Instructor: Darell Matthews Course Assistants / Student Volunteers Course Website: cis115.info Reference Books on web development

Course Information CIS110-0A – Darell Matthews Syllabus and Objective Information Course Expectations Lectures and Modules Project-based Course Assessment Lab Time for Problem Sets / Projects

What is Computer Science? Webster: a branch of science that deals with the theory of computation or the design of computers Webster Learners: the study of computers and their uses Urban Dictionary: the magical major where you have to write a program the night before it is due while your friends are playing poker or “other” things

Why Use Computer Science? Solve problems more quickly than humanly possible Integrate today’s media into ‘old school’ forms of communication Create pages/apps that will accomplish complicated goals with little effort Make things people can use so we can make $$$

Common Problems We Can Solve Using CS Finding ‘Mike Smith’ in a phone book Making a PB&J sandwich with an algorithm $1,000,000 or $0.01 a day, doubled each day, for 30 days 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon

What Programs Will I Write in CIS115 Laying out our web pages in Balsamiq or other mockup applications Web pages in simple HTML5 or XHTML 1.0 Transitional Styling our pages using CSS Taking user input via PHP Storing/retrieving user input via XML/MySQL Making pages interactive with JavaScript

What Assignments Will I Have in CIS web-based projects, each with layout 1 using HTML5/XHTML and CSS 1 using HTML5/XHTML, CSS, XML, and JavaScript 1 using HTML5/XHTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript 1 using HTML5/XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript 1 Final Project utilizing all languages, mashups, CMS, or other means

What Tools Will I Use to Program in CIS115? Balsamiq Mock-Up Web (outlining utility - $FREE) Programmer’s Notepad / Notepad++ (editing utility - $FREE) WAMP (local web server for Windows - $FREE) WinSCP (file transfer utility for Windows - $FREE) Online Resources (W3Schools.com, PHP.net, MySQL.com - $FREE) Every student in the class, course assistants, etc...!!!

Is This CS Stuff Something I Can Home? Certainly, the process is simple: Use Balsamiq to mock-up your page/site Write your pages and style sheets using Programmer’s Notepad Test your page/site using your WAMP server locally Upload your page/site to our server for grading using WinSCP (this step MUST be done from our classroom)

Can I Make $$$ With CS or Making Web Pages? Most Definitely Today a nice site designed from scratch costs around $2,500-$10,000 just for creation, not including maintenance. Examples of $1,000-$1,500 web pages: dougcreeger.compewrenovations.combethabaraumc.com ncfishinglog.com & ncfishinglog.com/mobile Web-based applications (Easy Auction Software)

Page Type Examples Photoshop Image (difficult to update, wonderful control of colors and images) = kmtballjig.com CSS (easy to change/update, lots of code to write) = pewrenovations.com & dougcreeger.com JavaScript (looks great with dynamism, runs on client sandbox) = SCC Mobile site ( Flash (moving images, dynamic sounds) = bethabaraumc.com Content Management System (ie: Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress - makes daily updates and reorganization faster and easier) = sampsoncctech.info (Drupal) PHP/MySQL = gather user input and organize it for retrieval = ncfishinglog.com

So What’s Next? Get our desktops ready for programming Login to Windows 7 as ‘student / password’ Start WAMP server and view icon menu Programmer’s Notepad, WinSCP3 Lecture 0 - HTTP and the Web