95-729 E-Commerce Technologies

• 6 units

• Laptop required

  This class is a pre-requisite for 95-730 E-Commerce taught in fall and spring.

Because of its ubiquitous nature, the Internet has become a successful medium for facilitating businesses. Understanding of the technology is essential to build interesting business models. In this mini-course, students will learn technologies to implement e-commerce solutions and will analyze some interesting business models from the technology perspective.

Major focus will be given to Active Server Pages (ASP) and basics of Extensible Mark Up Language (XML). This course assumes a decent knowledge of HTML. Following a quick overview of HTML, students will deal with writing ASP scripts to create dynamic HTML and database connectivity. Next, XML structures and syntax will be introduced. The course will also cover integration of XML and ASP.

The classes will be tutorial-based where students will be given hands-on exercises during the class. For this class, will require laptops with Windows 2000 Professional (as required by the MISM Program). Grading will be based on five assignments and a final exam.