Section B, Spring 2004
Professor Larry Heimann

Below is a listing of the lectures and reading for each class. This schedule is tentative and may be changed as conditions merit it. If our pace is faster or slower than anticipated, then I will add or delete items at my discretion. Any changes will be announced in class and class announcements supercede the schedule presented here.

Date	Lecture Topic	Reading
1/13	Course Introduction
1/15	Goldman-Sachs seminar (attendance required)	Shapiro and Varian, ch. 1
1/20	Economics of Information 1	Shapiro and Varian, ch. 2 - 4
1/22	Economics of Information 2	Shapiro and Varian, ch. 5 - 6
1/27	Economics of Information 3	Shapiro and Varian, ch. 7 - 8
1/29	Outsourcing seminar - sponsored by Infosys	Shapiro and Varian, ch. 9 - 10
2/3	HTML, CSS & JavaScript 1	Online tutorials on HTML
2/5	HTML, CSS & JavaScript 2	Online tutorial of CSS
2/10	HTML, CSS & JavaScript 3	Online tutorial on JavaScript
2/12	HTML, CSS & JavaScript4	Online tutorial on JavaScript
2/17	Midterm Exam 1
2/19	Information, Organizations and Politics 1	Class handout - Davenport & Prusek I
2/24	Information, Organizations and Politics 2	Class handout - Davenport & Prusek II
2/26	Redesigning Organizations with Information Systems 1
3/2	Redesigning Organizations with Information Systems 2
3/4	Build, Buy, or Outsource?
3/8-10	Spring Break!	Gruberman, History of the World, pp. 1 - 1086 (required)
3/16	Issues in Managing Information Systems 1
3/18	Issues in Managing Information Systems 2
3/23	Introduction to Relational Databases
3/25	Using Relational Databases 1
3/30	Using Relational Databases 2
4/1	No class at regular time -- review session in evening (Time and location TBA)
4/6	Midterm Exam 2
4/8	Models of Systems Development	Online article: "Why Software Is So Bad"
4/13	Issues with Systems Development	McConnell, ch. 1 - 6
4/15	No class -- spring carnival
4/20	Failures in Software Engineering	McConnell, ch. 7 - 11
4/22	Principles of Software Engineering 1	McConnell, ch. 12 - 16
4/27	Principles of Software Engineering 2	Class handout on CMM
4/29	Principles of Software Engineering 3	McConnell, ch. 17 - 21

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