IST 210

IST 210: Organization of Data
Spring 2006 University Park

Section 3: taught by James Wang
M W F 1:00PM-2:15PM 208 IST (Wednesday for 'bootcamp' or when needed)
Section 4: taught by James Wang
M W F 11:15AM-12:30PM 208 IST (Wednesday for 'bootcamp' or when needed)

( http://wang.ist.psu.edu )
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Project server status

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5/3 FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT:The final exam scores and the letter grades have been entered in the database and reported to the University via elion. The grades are final and cannot be changed. Only a small portion of the class received A's or A-'s. The highest final exam score is 82. The best projects are media100, media102, media106, and media121. We will keep the projects on the server for as long as we can. But you should backup your files. The scores are confidential information. We hope you all have had a great semester in which we believe you have learned a lot of new and potentially useful things. We will start to be out of town as early as tomorrow morning. If you wish to take a look at your final exam sheets, you can do so early next semester by scheduling an appt with Prof. Wang. The exam sheets will be recycled after mid- Fall semester.
We both enjoyed this semester with all of you. Have a great summer!
- James Wang, Tao Yang, Ritendra Datta

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Assignments

Homework/Project assignments: list homeworks, check your grades and view solutions
Project: check your group login, projects, (past projects: 1, 2, 3, 4).
List of Websites presented
Some lab notes and HTML/PHP scripts

Links

Freeware:
With the following public-domain (free) software, you can easily set up a database application with a web interface. Applications on this class web page were all created using this software (on a UNIX server).

MySQL: a powerful freeware DB server (documentation)
PHP: a hypertext preprocessor (documentation)
Apache: a popular web server
putty.exe: a well-written SSH client for UNIX computers
Mambo: Free content managements system
DBI: a PERL interface library for databases
CGI-LIB: a PERL CGI library for web applications
OpenOffice: Free Office software on UNIX
Commercial vendors: ORACLE, IBM, Microsoft, SYBASE, and Informix.

Other links may be useful:

RedHat: a free LINUX operating system for PC
StarNet: a free X-Windows software for Windows

2006 James Z. Wang
College of Information Sciences and Technology
Penn State University

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