1. INSTRUCTOR:
            Dr. John Butler
        OFFICE:
            448 Fisher Hall, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University,
            Columbus, Ohio 43210
        OFFICE HOURS:
            Wednesday 2:30 - 3:30 and by appointment.
        OFFICE PHONE:
            (614) 688-8679
        E-MAIL:
      butlerj@cob.ohio-state.edu
         the subject of all messages must be AMIS 532

2. COURSE TEXTS:

1. Programming in Visual Basic.NET: Update Edition for VB.NET 2003 by Julia Case Bradley and Anita C. Millspaugh, 5th edition, McGraw Hill, ISBN 0072256710
2. A book on using Microsoft Access of your choice
3. This syllabus serves as an interactive entry point into all materials covered in this class. It WILL be updated frequently during the quarter, so check often for new links, notes, messages, and other related material.

The course introduces the concepts and programming techniques for building successful interactive business systems.  Graphical user interfaces (GUI) and event-driven programming, which provide the basis for the ease-of-use feature of successful business systems, are studied using friendly, powerful, and popular systems development tools.

4. STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES:

You are expected to have read carefully the assigned portion of the book prior to coming to class (and I encourage you to discuss it with friends); most of the class time will be devoted to the discussion of applications and extensions of the material in the book.

You may work on assignments together (for example, discuss how to work a problem or rough out a solution), but every group must turn in work that is written up individually. Solutions to these problems may not be “copied” and “pasted” by multiple groups.  The purpose of the assignments is not to find a solution on the Internet or from students who took this class previously.  If you do find some useful information on the web or from another source it should be referenced!  Evidence of cheating in any form will be met with serious punishment including formal channels at the University level.

5. GRADING POLICY:

	The class consists of a total of 100 points: Exams 40 points Exercises 40 points Group Project 20 points
	Exercises Exercises are individual assignments.  As such, they should be done individually.  It is important to note that plagiarism is an academic misconduct subject to severe penalty.  Those who commit plagiarism including accomplice will risk receiving a failure grade for the course and also sanction from the university. Click here for how to hand in an exercise.
	Group Project The project is an important part of the course and will constitute 20% of your grade.  It will be done in groups of 3 or 4. The objective is to develop a business application using Visual Basic .Net.  You will have considerable flexibility in selecting an application.  You will present your work to the class at the end of the course.  More detailed description about the project will be given as the end of the quarter approaches.
	No makeup exams will be given.   No late assignments will be accepted.
	If an assignment is added or deleted, those points will simply be added or subtracted from the total.

6. COMPUTER USUAGE:

This class requires the Microsoft .NET Framework and Visual Basic.NET.  Note, .NET is a true object oriented language and is very different than previous versions of Visual Basic.  The lab in Mason Hall will be equipped with the appropriate software.

The .Net framework  is a set of software technologies for connecting information, people, systems, and devices, independent of location and computing platform.  The goal is to access information anywhere and anytime using the common infrastructure of the Internet.  An important element of the .Net framework is software components (objects) that run on diverse computing platforms.  The .Net Framework supersedes  the ActiveX technology.  The following site contains detailed information about the .Net framework: http://www.microsoft.com/net/

7. TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
 

Week	Date	Topic	Readings	Class Notes	Assignment (points)
1	Sept 22	Course overview
2	Sept 27	VB Programming Environment	Chapter 1	chap1.ppt
	Sept 29	More Controls	Chapter 2	chap2.ppt
3	Oct 4	Programming with VB.Net	Chapter 3	chap3.ppt
	Oct 6	More Programming with VB.Net	Chapter 4 & 5	chap4-5.ppt	Exercise 1 (2)
4	Oct 11	Object Oriented Concepts	Chapter 6	chap6.ppt	Exercise 2 (4)
	Oct 13	Multiple forms, static variables, timers and menus	Chapter 7	chap7.ppt
5	Oct 18	Message boxes, exception handing	Chapter 7		Exercise 3 (5)
	Oct 20	Lists, combo boxes, arrays and protection	Chapter 8	chap8.ppt
6	Oct 25	Exam 1			Exercise 4 (5)
	Oct 27	Rich text boxes, common dialog controls, data files and databases	Chapter 11	chap11.ppt
7	Nov 1	SQL and Microsoft Access		Nov1.ppt	Exercise 5 (5)
	Nov 3	Access		print this file bring chap11.ppt bring textbook
8	Nov 8	Accessing Database Files	Chapter 10	chap10.ppt	Exercise 6 (6)
	Nov 10	Accessing Database Files	Chapter 10	chap10-2.ppt
9	Nov 15	Input validation, strings		week9-1.ppt
	Nov 17	Active X, user controls		week9-2.ppt	Exercise 7 (6)
10	Nov 22	Exam 2			Exercise 8 (7) see 11/17 message
	Nov 24	Project Work Day
11	Nov 29	Project Presentations
	Dec 1	Project Presentations

8. MESSAGES:

www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/mindread/psychicSparkle.swf

11/22 Exercise #8 is now due by 3:00 pm on 11/24.  Start immediately.

11/17 1) Here's an Excel sheet with all of the car brands and models that are in the Ex#8 database.  2) We're doing SEIs today for the start of class.

11/14 Since you cannot experiment wtih web forms in the lab, the second midterm will not cover chapter 9.

11/2 Bring the Chap11.ppt slides on Monday (11/3) as well so we can discuss database "theory".

10/14 Some of you are paying attention.  To be honest, I posted the example solution for Exercise 3 from last year and didn't think much about it.  Techically it is wrong.  The lights were staying around too long.  I've reposted a new example, NEWtrafficlight.exe here and on the assignment page.  Let me be clear: if you don't fix this it would be a minor (10%) deduction.  I'll explain the issue in a follow up e-mail.  Sorry for the mixup.

10/13 I changed the due dates of the assignments as we discussed in class today.  Think of the links as a "heads-up" that your assignment is about to be due.  Imporant: I will be attending a conference from Oct 23 - Oct 26th.   I will have someone else give your midterm on the 25th but it is important to realize that I will have limited access to e-mail.  You would be well served to start ASAP so that you can ask questions when I am in town.

10/04 Hotmail will block .exe files whether your e-mail client will send them or not.  Note that I have changed the procedure for handing in files.  I am going to delete all of the assignments that have been sent so far.  If you already sent your file, please re-send as it has been deleted.  See how to hand in an exercise for the changes (again).

10/01 Just to be clear the only use of the butler532@hotmail.com address is for handing in the executable file (and other files that may be part of an assignment).  All other correspondance should be sent to me directly.

9/29 In class today I told you that I would send you a "secret code" to use in naming your files.  I thought about it and decided that it wasn't neccessary to do that if I changed the naming convention for the files you submit.  See how to hand in an exercise for the changes.

9. CONTACT INFO:

e-mail entire class, including Butler

e-mail entire class, excluding Butler