May 19 - First class for the semester :-) Print syllabus, complete survey discuss articles; discuss Chapter 1.

May 20 - Review survey; Introduce Chapter 2;

May 21 - Continue with Chapter 2. Review results from first assignment. Second assignment, Form groups

May 22 - XMLHTTPRequest object, Quiz

May 27 - group presentation, chapter 9, third assignment

May 28 - determine project languages and structure,

May 29 - test given out. assignment turned in. Quiz. Frameworks & prototyping

June 2 - discussion of building prototypes. Test handed in. Material from Chapter 3.

June 3- Review some articles about Ajax. Firebug debugging.

June 4 - presentation & critique of prototypes

June 5 - Tests returned. Assignment due. prototype evaluation results, Chapter 4.

June 9 - chapter 4, presentations

June 10 - getting ready for the beta release

June 11 - Beta release event/party

June 12- review results from Beta release. Take-home test. Quiz.

June 16 - each group makes a presentation responding to issues/questions brought up at the beta-release

June 17 Review course, get ready for final.

June 19 - Final presentations. All material related to the project are submitted and final.

Ajax Tutorials, short courses.

• Free 18-week AJAX Training Course by Sang Shin Eighteen session course.
• Ajax Tutorial A tutorial offered by W3Schools.

Readings.

• adaptive path » ajax: a new approach to web applications The article that coined the term Ajax.
• New Web-based Technology Draws Applications, Investors Getting the Ajax buzz according to the Wall Street Journal
• Building Dynamic Web Applications with AJAX A collection of slides giving an introduction to Ajax. Includes examples.
• Mastering Ajax, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax Understanding Ajax, a productive approach to building Web sites, and how it works. Level: Introductory. The first part of an eight-part series from IBM.
• Getting Started with Ajax An article from A List Apart that assumes some Web development experience.

Links collected by the instructor. These are all selected based on tags at del.icio.us

• Ajax
• CSS
• DOM
• JavaScript
• XHTML
• XML
• XSLT
• XMLHttpRequest