Course Schedule

Professor John M. McCann
Fuqua School of Business
Duke University
Last update: January 27, 1997

Course Schedule

Specific readings and lecture topics will be scheduled as the course progresses. However, it is clear that the first half of the course will focus on:

The technology for access information on the Internet, and
The technology for developing WWW applications
Marketing applications of the WWW,

The second half of the course will focus on:

Reviewing/sharing student work on major course assignments, and
Guest lecturers/presenters sharing commercial WWW development issues.

Specific readings will be assigned as the course progresses.

Assignments are discussed in detail elsewhere at this WWW site. However, assignment due dates will follow the schedule below:

Assignment	Day	Date
Assignment 1a	Monday	March 25
Assignment 1b	Thursday	March 28
Assignment 3 Team & Target	Monday	April 1
Assignment 2	Thursday	April 4
Assignment 3	Thursday	April 11
Assignment 4	Thursday	April 25

The following is a schedule of topics that will be covered during the course. Additions and modifications will be made as the course evolves.

Date	Topics
March 24	Course Overview, Web site, HTML Assistant, FTP, HTML fundamentals
March 27	HTML topics: Links ....... Digital technologies
March 31	HTML topic: Tables & Frames ...... Digital dawn
April 3	HTML topics, Way we live
April 7	HTML topics: Backgrounds ... HTML topics: Frame Targets ... Way we work
April 10	HTML topics: Transparent Images, ... Digital media
April 14	HTML topics: Clickable Tables .... Marketing in a Digital Age
April 17	HTML topics: Clickable Image Maps ..... Disintermediation ... Pointcast Network demo
April 21	Group presentations ... Peapod Demo
April 24	Group Presentations ... Interpath Presentation
April 28	Group presentations ... David Emmett
May 1	Group presentations

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