IS 341 - Administrivia

Instructor:	Keith Vander Linden North Hall 290 phone: x67111 internet: http://www.calvin.edu/~kvlinden
Office Hours:	Monday and Wednesday 3:30-4:30 or by appointment
Text: Database-Driven Web Sites, M. Morrison and J. Morrison, Thomson Course Technology, 2003. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, http://www.wikipedia.org. Lecture Notes, K. Vander Linden, copies available at the bookstore.
Weekly schedule: We will meet for lectures on Monday and Wednesday in SB-382. We will then meet for a 2-hour lab session on Friday in either SB-382 or SB-337, whichever is appropriate. Lab exercises will be due by 5:00pm the day of the lab, and weekly homework projects will be due at the beginning of the following week's lab.
Grading: I will compute your final grade as follows: 5% Weekly lab exercises 15% Weekly projects 40% Two midterm exams 40% Final project and presentation You may work together with other class members on the lab exercises, indeed, I encourage you to do this, but you must do your own work on the weekly projects and the final project.
The Programming Environment: In general, the programming work will be done using Microsoft technology, which we have running Windows 2003 Server on a separate partition of the SB 337 Lab. It includes the .Net framework, IIS, SQL Server, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, VB.Net, Visual Studio.Net and JavaScript. Each student will be assigned a particular machine and will be given administrator access to that machine. If you would like to do your work on another platform (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle), please stop by and discuss it with me.
Attendance: I will not grade you on class attendance. If you do have to miss a class for any reason, I'd appreciate it if you let me know so we can review the material and activities to be covered in the missed session.
Disabilities: Calvin will make reasonable accommodations for you if you have documented disabilities. Notify the Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities located in the Student Academic Services, HH 455, and also notify me within the first two weeks of class.
Incompletes: I will give an incomplete grade (I) only in unusual circumstances and only if those circumstances have been confirmed by the Student Life office.
Individual Work: Your weekly homeworks and your project will be done individually. Feel free to discuss ideas with your classmates or with me, but don't copy in any way. If I detect any plagiarism, I'll be forced to give a failing grade on the homework and perhaps for the course.
Late Work: I will clearly indicate a due date for all assignments. Anything submitted up to one week after that date is late, unless you have made prior arrangements with me. For each late paper, you will be charged 10% for each business-day that you are late. Thus, if a homework is due on Friday, you may turn it in on Monday at 10% off, Tuesday at 20% off and so on. I will not generally accept papers after the solution has been posted and discussed, but please come and talk to me if there are exceptional circumstances and we'll work something out. I will also grant you 4 grace days with no penalty, no questions asked.

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