syllabus

African Internet Technology Initiative (AITI) 2004 Syllabus
(http://web.mit.edu/mit-africa/www)

MIT-AITI presents Ghana-2004 “Team G-Unit”

Team Members:

Aisha Walcott, EECS, Graduate Student,

Samuel Gikandi, EECS, Senior

Lauri Kauppila, Aero/Astro, Junior

Tamara Stern, EECS, Junior

Ato Ulzen-Appiah, Civil Engineering and Management, Junior

Team Email: ghana-2004"at"mit"."edu

General Course Information

Duration(Dates): June 14, 2004- July 23, 2004
Time: 9:00am sharp!!! -1:00pm, everyday (has been modified to 5:00pm)
General Topics: Introduction to Java and Introduction to Entrepreneurship. The material is reinforced through lectures, labs, exams, a final project, and a business plan.
Course Material: MIT-AITI 2004 Lecture Notes Booklet, Entrepreneurship Lecture Notes Booklet, CD with the electronic format of the course materials, Core Java VolumeI-Fundamentals by Cay S. Horstmann and Gary Cornell ( OCW students only).

**Certificates will be awarded to those students who successfully complete the course.**

Purpose

1. Teach computer programming using Java with practical work in computer laboratory

2. Teach entrepreneurship, with a USD $330 competition at the end to be awarded to MIT-AITI teams in 3 countries.

3. Teach self-learning skills through the MIT Open CourseWare Initiative.

-please see http://ocw.mit.edu

Curriculum
The course will focus on two topics. The first is computer programming in Java, and the second is entrepreneurship. Concepts of the Java programming language over six weeks will be covered. This will culminate in a final project at the end of the six weeks to demonstrate each student’s knowledge of the material presented in the course.

The entrepreneurship portion of the AITI course will cover topics ranging from building business in Africa to e-commerce. It consists of a series of lectures and successful business women and men from the local community. The entrepreneurship series will culminate with a business plan competition with a reward of $330.

Lectures and Labs
Java lectures will be conducted daily in the Chemistry Department Ghana-China Computer Lab starting at 9 a.m. Lab sessions in Java and JSP will be held daily after the lectures until 1 p.m. Lab due dates will be announced when the labs are assigned. The MIT-AITI team members will be available to answer questions during these sessions. The entrepreneurship lecture series will be conducted on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Lab Collaboration Policy
Students are encouraged to work together and help each other on lab assignments. However there can be no cheating or copying of code! If any student is caught cheating on a lab they immediately receive a grade of failure, and disciplinary action will follow.

Grading Policy

40% Labs
20% Final Project
40% Exams: There will be 2 three hour exams. We will not tolerate cheating. If anyone is caught cheating, they will be given a fail, and disciplinary action will follow.

Course Schedule

June 14^th – June 18^th	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9.00-12.00	L0, E0, L1	L2, L3	L4	L5	L6
11.00-1.00	B0	B1	B2	B3	B4
2.00-4.00		EP0, EP1		EP2

June 21^st- June 25^th	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9.00-11.00	L7	L8	L9	L10, E1
11.00-1.00	B5	B6	B7	B8	Exam 1
2.00-4.00		EP3		EP4	FP

June 28^th – July 2^nd	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9.00-12.00	L11	L12	L13	Republic Day Holiday No Class!
11.00-1.00	B9	B10	B11
2.00-4.00		EP5

July ^5th– July 9^th	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9.00-11.00	L14	L15	L16	L17	L18
11.00-1.00	B12	B13	B14	B15	B16
1.00-4.00		EP6		EP7	FP (proposal)

July 12^th – July 16^th	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9.00-12.00	L19	JSP0, JSP1	JSP2	Study/Finish Java Labs	Exam2
11.00-1.00	B17	JSPB0, JSPB1	JSPB2	Study/Finish Java Labs	FP
1.00-4.00		EP8		EP9

July 19^th – July 23^rd	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9.00-12.00	JSP3	JSP4	JSP5, FP	FP	FP, E3
11.00-1.00	JSPB3	JSPB4	JSPB5	FP	FP
1.00-4.00		EP10		EP12

-Need to add 2 more entrepreneurship lectures EP11 and EP12

Key:

Lxx - Java Lecture Bxx – Java Lab Exx – Evaluation Form

JSPxx – JSP Lecture JSPBxx – JSP Lab.

EPxx – Entrepreneurship Lecture Qxx - Quiz

Course Topics

Java Lectures

L0 - Intro to AITI

L1 - Intro to Java

L2 - Variables and Data Types

L3 – Operators

L4 - Control Structures

L5 – Arrays

L6 – Methods

L7 – Classes and Objects 1
L8 - Classes and Objects 2

L9 - Lists and Iterators

L10 - Static and Final

L11 - Package, Scope, and Access

L12 – Inheritance

L13 - Abstract Classes and Interfaces

L14 - Exceptions

L15 - IO and Parsing

L16 - Intro to Swing

L17 - Swing Event Model

L18 - Collections 1

L19 - Collections 2

Java Labs

B0 - Hello World

B1 - Variables and Operators

B2 - Control Structures

B3 - Gradebook 1

B4 - Gradebook 2

B5 - GradebookOO 1

B6 - GradebookOO 2

B7 - GradebookOO 3

B8 - Racecar 1

B9 - Racecar 2

B10 - Students 1

B11 - Students 2

B12 - MyStore 1

B13 - MyStore 2

B14 – Calculator 1 (during lecture)

B15 – Calculator 2 (during lecture)

B16 - Card Game 1

B17 - Card Game 2

JSP Lectures

JSP0 - HTML

JSP1 - JSP Basics

JSP2 - Get and Post Requests

JSP3 - Including and Forwarding

JSP4 - Sessions and Cookies
JSP5 - Separating Presentation from Logic

JSP Labs

JSPB0 - Starting Your Web Application

JSPB1 - Making Your Pages Dynamic

JSPB2 - Interacting with the User

JSPB3 - Making Your Code Modular

JSPB4 - Remembering the User

About AITI
AITI is an organization founded the year 2000 and run entirely by MIT students. It focuses on bringing information technology to Africa by working with schools and universities in Ghana, Kenya and Ethiopia. For more information please see http://web.mit.edu/mit-africa/www.