IST 210

IST 210: Organization of Data
Spring 2007 University Park

Section 3: taught by James Wang
M W F 11:15PM-12:30PM 208 IST (Fridays for 'bootcamp' or when needed)
Section 4: taught by James Wang
M W F 2:30PM-3:45PM 208 IST (Fridays for 'bootcamp' or when needed)

( http://wang.ist.psu.edu )
Registrar Info

Project server status

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FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT: 5/9 IST 210 students in Sections 3 and 4,

We have finalized the exam and project scores. The letter grades have been assigned and reported to the University. 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 76. The best projects are 226, 210, 206, and 211. We will keep the project server running before July. But you should backup your files as soon as you can. The scores are confidential information.

We have taken everything into consideration. In the past week, the course team worked very hard to make sure that the scores are fair to all in the sections. We uploaded your exam and project scores on Angel so you can view them.

You can view the peer comments about your project. We uploaded a PDF file to your team space on Angel. It is called $media_id.pdf where $media_id is your group ID.

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 very soon. If you wish to take a look at your final exam sheets, you can do so by scheduling an appt in the summer. The exam sheets will be recycled after the summer.

We enjoyed this semester with all of you.

Have a great summer!

- James Wang, Ritendra Datta, Ying Liu, and Walter Weiss

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Course Information

Syllabus
Schedule and lecture notes (subject to revisions)
Projects, API site alipr.com (past projects: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Log on Angel

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

2007 James Z. Wang
College of Information Sciences and Technology
Penn State University

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