MIS 412: E-Business Systems Development

Prerequisites:

MIS 412 is a web-programming class with e-business focus. If you do not have programming background, it will be very difficult for you to survive this course. Please review the course web site to get a feeling about what will be covered in this course to see whether you have enough background for this course.

I will assume student sign up for this course have taken a semester long programming course before and have basic knowledge of HTML at source code level.  There are some very basic learning materials at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/learningpath/ and we are interested in the Web track.

Self-Assessment Questions:

1. Do you know what <a href=http://www.gmu.edu>George Mason University </a> mean?
2. Can you create an HTML table by hand-coding it using <table><tr><td> tags?
3. You feel comfortable with variables, data type, if statement, while statement, function and subroutine, and maybe a little bit of object-oriented programming, etc.  for example, Do you know what   "x = x + 1" means?
4. Basic SQL Language skill is also required.  (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE statemens)
5. If you answer is YES to all the questions above, you should be OK.
6. A decent computer at home that is capable of running Visual Web Developer or Visual Studio .NET for this class. 
7. The class will be taught will lecture and hand-on fashions and many programming assignments and exercises.  If you don't like coding, this is not for you!