2. 1 BIT 5495 Introduction Syllabus Instructor:Dr. Lance A. Matheson Office:Pamplin 1017 Office Hours:By appointment e-mail is best way to contact me Phone:540.231.5804 (office) E-mail:lance@vt.edulance@vt.edu Material:Canvas has all class material Discussions:Canvas has discussions for HW & general items

3. Class Information Totally online No class meetings HW can be submitted any time during the week shown on the schedule Course Website - Canvas (canvas.vt.edu) – Files (lectures) – HW discussions – Example programsc – Grades 2

4. 3 Honor Code and Helping Classmates The graduate honor code will be enforced. You are allowed to discuss homework and projects with your classmates. You can share sections of code to help explain your work. However, you may not copy another person’s program or code sections. You should re-write the code to make it your own and to understand how it works. Work that appears to be copied will be submitted to the honor system.

5. 4 Software Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 Download through VT software system www2.ita.vt.edu/software/student/index.html

6. 5 Books and Lectures Textbook: Murach's C# 2012, Joel Murach and Anne Boehm Lectures:PowerPoint slides with narration and notes Example programs:Compressed files on Canvas

7. 6 Syllabus Grading:Homework: 20% Midterm: 35% Project: 10% Final Exam: 35% Homework:There will be several assignments. Submit to Canvas Project:Individual or group project

8. 7 Objective This course covers the development of Decision Support Systems (DSS) using a graphical programming system, Visual C#. Students will learn topics in DSS design focusing on visual programming and distribution in a web-based environment. Design of distributed DSS using tools such as Active Server Pages, and Active Data Objects is also covered.

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11. Mid Term Exam Saturday, March 12, 8am through Tuesday, March 15, 11:55pm

12. 11 Final Exam Friday, May 6, 8am through Sunday, May 8, 11:55pm