1. 470 First Lecture1 CMPT 470 Instructor: –Wo-Shun Luk, ASB 10829, woshun@cs.sfu.cawoshun@cs.sfu.ca –Office Hours: 3:30 – 4:30 M W F TA: –Henry Zhang, hzhangb@cs.sfu.cahzhangb@cs.sfu.ca –Office Hours: (@ASB 9804) Tue: 4:30 – 5:30 pm Thur: 2:30 – 3:30 pm

2. 470 First Lecture2 What is 470 about? It is about basic concepts of various major components that are parts of a Web-based information system. It is about application development –for building 3-tier systems, –with Web as the platform, –following a component methodology.

3. 470 First Lecture3 Today’s Application Development Environment 3-tier architecture: –front-end (or browser): GUI, light data processing. –middle-ware: business logic –database system: transaction management, persistence. Distributed objects –COM/OLE objects, JavaBeans

4. 470 First Lecture4 Course Plan General introduction to Internet and Web. Brief introduction to COM objects. HTML and Dynamic HTML. (browser) Internet Explorer. (browser) HTTP. (communication) Information Internet Server. (server) Active Server Pages/VB/Webclasses. (server) ActiveX Data Objects. (browser, server, and database) XML. (browser, server, and database) Internet Security. (browser, server and database)

5. 470 First Lecture5 Text & References Text (?): Professional Active Server Pages 2.0, A. Fedorov et al, Wrox Press Ltd, 1998 (?) References: –Microsoft MSDN Library. –Other articles on the Web.

6. 470 First Lecture6 Course Evaluation Scheme Homework assignment: 20% –Mostly programming Mid-term exam: 15% Term project: 30% Final exam: 35%

7. 470 First Lecture7 Software Development Platforms for 470 Internet Explorer (IE) 4.0/5.0 Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Development Tools: –Visual Basic 6.0 –Active Server Pages 2.0 –Office 2000 –FrontPage 2000 (no support) –InterDev 6.0 (no support)