LBSC 690: Introduction to Information Technology

Logistics

Location HBK 0109
Time Mondays 17:30-20:15
Webpage http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/teaching/LBSC_690_2012/
Online Discussion http://piazza.com/class#fall2012/lbsc690
Videos of Lectures Panopto (Login via "UMD ELMS")
Syllabus https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1G43ahqIcffAmPlJniIQAUa-5YSFv67nOo-1YWIp4NrQ

People

Professor

Jordan Boyd-Graber
Hornbake 2118C
Office Hours: Monday 16:00 - 17:00, after class, and by appointment

Schedule

I will do my best to make sure that slides are posted here by 4:30 before class.

Date Subject Assignment Due Lecture
9/10 Basics: Hardware and Data [PDF]
Readings:
  • Kernighan, Chapters 1-3
Resources:
9/17 The Web: Moving data around the world Assignment 0 [PDF]
Readings: Resources:
9/24 What makes usable software? [PDF]
Readings: Useful sites:
10/1 HTML: Delivering text to the world Assignment 1 [PDF]
Readings / Reference:
10/8 CSS [PDF]
Readings:
10/15 Databases and Structured Data [PDF]
Readings: Demos:
10/22 SQL Assignment 2 [PDF]
Readings:
10/29 Class cancelled: Hurricane Sandy
11/5 Midterm [PDF]
Previous midterms
11/12 Programming Languages [PDF]
Readings:
11/19 Deploying and Ethics of IT Systems Assignment 3 [PDF]
Readings:
  • Kernighan, Ch. 10-11
11/26 Multimedia and AI EC [PDF]
Readings:
12/3 Workshop to prepare final projects
12/10 Final Project Presentation Final Project