Lecture notes
(overheads) will be posted on this page after the class meetings. So
check this page regularly.
Instructor: Dr. DAT-DAO NGUYEN
Office: BB3221
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday from 16:00 to 17:30
or by appointment.
e-mail: datdao.nguyen@csun.edu
Web page: http://www.csun.edu/~dn58412/
Ticket Number Time Location
28030 M, W, F 13:00 - 15:40 BB2212
Emerging information technology (IT) has changed the way that organizations conduct their business. With the proliferation of using personal computers to access to the Internet, the World Wide Web has provided a new means to conduct online business, namely electronic commerce (e-commerce, e-business, or e-biz). This new business paradigm has been increasingly adopted by organizations around the world to capitalize on potential of Web-based technologies to improve communications and transactions, reduce operation costs, and increase market share. Actually, emerging online businesses are competing effectively with traditional bricks-and-mortar organizations.
The advent of e-commerce has posed many new issues in the development of business information systems, including Accounting Information Systems. In order to develop effectively and efficiently information systems for contemporary business, the IS specialists should understand new contexts, practices, and appropriate IT - specifically web-based technologies. The purpose of this course is to introduce e-commerce, its impacts on business processes, and keys issues in the development of web-based business information systems and applications.
The course reviews foundations of e-commerce, its infrastructure, current business models in business-to-customers (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) transactions, security and quality assurance, and systems development issues. A major part of the course will be devoted to hands-on practices covering client-side (front-end) and server-side (back-end) applications in web-based business information systems. Essentials of contemporary programming tools for e-commerce development such as HTML, DHTML, XML, ASP (VB/JavaScript) ... will be explored.
Once completing the course, students (future competent IS specialists) should be able to evaluate the information needs and requirements of a business entity wishing to adhere to e-commerce paradigm, and then participate in the development of an appropriate information system to support these organizational needs.
Today's, to my great disappointment, textbooks (and education) are quite expensive !!! But you should know that you are making an investment with the highest ROI (as Benjamin Franklin said) in preparing for your highly demanded future career.
In this class, we will need the following texts:
1. - Turban, Lee, King, and Chung (2000), Electronic Commerce, A Managerial Perspective. Prentice Hall (Required)
2. - Any Advanced HTML text (covering DHTML, XML) of your choice OR
one of the following recommendations:
- Deitel, Deitel, and Nieto (2000) e-Business &
e-Commerce: How to Program. Prentice Hall
- Powell (2001) HTML : The Complete Reference (3rd
Edition). Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Computer assignments for this course may be done on campus (or off campus, if you have access to an IBM compatible computer and the appropriate software). Computer labs for the College of Business are located in BB2125 and BB2129. Hours of operation are normally posted outside BB2129.
Note that students should have a box of 10 new or blank 3.5 HD diskettes, (or a 100M ZIP disk) for use in MIS 410 only (You may want to save your hands-on practices for future reference at work, don't you ?) A blank 3.5 diskette is needed for each exam.
The mark distribution for the course is as follows
4 Assignments (5% each) 20%
Midterm Exam 35%
Final Exam 45%
The exams cover the chapters listed on the following schedule, the material discussed in class lectures, and the homework problems assigned during the Semester. In each exam, besides questions on theoretical material, you will develop a mini hands-on application in class.
The final grade distribution is based on the following scale: A (93-100), A- (90-92), B+ (87-89), B (83-86), B- (80-82), C+ (77-79), C (73-76), C- (70-72), D+ (67-69), D(60-66), F (0-59).
| WEEK OF | TOPICS Hands-On Topics |
READINGS (Turban Text) |
PRACTICES/ HOMEWORKS* |
| 6/4 | Foundations of Web-based Acco Info Sys | Ch.1 Lecture Note 1 |
HTML 1 |
| Infrastructure of e-Commerce | Ch.11 Lecture Note 2 |
Assignment 1 HTML 2 |
|
| 6/11 | Intranet and Extranet | Ch.7 Lecture Note 3 |
HTML 3 |
| Electronic Payment Systems | Ch.8 Lecture Note 4 |
Assignment 2 | |
| 6/18 | B2C e-Commerce: Market Structure | Ch.2 Lecture Note 5 |
HTML 4 |
| B2C e-Commerce: Retailing Business | Ch.3,4 Lecture Note 6 |
DHTML-CSS Pic-1 Pic-2 Assignment 3 |
|
| MIDTERM Friday 06/22/2001 | |||
| 6/25 | B2C e-Commerce: Service Industries | Ch.5 Lecture Note 7 |
OOJavaScript JS-Today JS-Today2 |
| B2B e-Commerce | Ch.6 Lecture Note 8 |
Assignment 4 HTML-Register JS-CheckOut |
|
| 7/2 | Application Development | Lecture / Practices | JS-WinObjects |
| 7/9 | e-Commerce Strategy and Implementation | Ch.9 Lecture Note 9 |
|
| Quality Assurance in e-Commerce Public Policy in e-Commerce |
Ch.10 Lecture Note 10 |
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| FINAL EXAM Friday 07/13/2001 | |||
* To be added during the Semester
Students are reminded of the importance of reading and understanding the full content of the academic regulations in the University 2000-2002 Catalog, in particular, pages 552-554 on Academic Dishonesty. Any form of academic dishonesty will result in a grade of F for the course and could lead to suspension or even expulsion from the University. This is non-negotiable and no second chance will be given.
Lecture notes
(overheads) will be posted on this page after the class meetings. So
check this page regularly.
Information
on how obtain a network account and to publish web pages at CSUN can be found
at
http://www.csun.edu/itr/guides/account.html
and
http://www.csun.edu/itr/guides/publishcommands.html
If you did create a CSUN account in MIS 324, you don't have to do a new one.
Just FTP the web page to the sub directory public_html of your CSUN
account.
Remember that the address of the web page will be
http://www.csun.edu/~account/filename.htm where account is
your CSUN account (something like abc12345).
READING
- Reading 1 : Nguyen D.D and Kira D. (2000) "Market
Structure, Competition, and Equilibrium in Electronic Commerce Setting."
McMaster World Congress on the Management of Electronic Commerce.
(Hamilton, January 2000)
- Reading 2 : Nguyen D.D., Gray G., and Kira D.
(2000) "Trust and Quality Assurance in Business-To-Consumer Electronic Commerce:
Enhancing Consumer Acceptance and Participation." Pacific Asia Conference
on Information Systems (Hong Kong, June 2000)
XML in a nutshell (
XML-1 and XML-2
) For those of you want to learn more.
NOTE THAT ASSIGNMENTS SUBMITTED BY E-MAIL WILL NOT
BE CONSIDERED FOR GRADE !!! (We are not in Vitual University yet
!!!)
IN THE NEWS
Market Outlook:
The Real World is Waiting for YOU !!!
Skills Shortage
Puts Job Market Out of Balance: What skills do YOU have ?
Global IT Spending
$1.4 Trillion by 2005 !!!
Money Talks
!!!
Internet Could
Run Out of Address Space by 2005
The
Rise and Fall of Visual Basic
INSTRUCTIONS FOR TAKING FINAL EXAM
The Final
Exam will be cummulative: 30% of theoretical questions will be on Lectures
1-5.
<SCRIPT>function YourGrade( ) {if (you do well in the final){the
final will carry all 80% grade weight for the course;} else {refer to the
grading scheme posted above;}} </SCRIPT> <!-- This display
is NOT a browser's error, don't blame the folks at Microsoft and Netscape.
Review your notes , before it is too late, if you don't understand the message
!!! //-->
In the Final
Exam, you will have: course.exam.final.parts[1].value = "a set of multiple
choice questions and some short questions"; course.exam.final.parts[2].value
= "a mini e-Commerce programming"; The first part on multiple choices
and short questions will be closed book. Once you
hand this part in, you can log on computer and go on with the hands-on part
(e-Commerce Programming) .
Note that the hands-on part (e-Commerce Programming)
will be open book and you can use any books, notes for reference. However,
you are not allowed to talk, consult, or exchange notes
with your colleagues .
FAQs
- Q: How long is the final exam ?
A: 2 (two) hours.
- Q: How to study for the final?
A: As a "professional" student, you SHOULD know how :-)
Review the class notes, lecture notes, Turban's text, homework assignments,
and hands-on practices. Once again, you will be asked NO MORE (but NO LESS
either !!!) than whatever we have covered in class.
- Q: Where and How can I get help during my "exam
cram" ? A: "GOD helps those who help themselves [Source:
Unknown]." In any case, your humble instructor will be available for your
last minute consultations. Drop him a (short) e-mail if you have any (short)
questions. Make an appointment to see him before the exam if you have a major
problem !!!
EXAM SCHEDULE : Friday July 13,
2001 from 13:00 to 15:00 in BB 2212.
Bring with you
a Scantron Form (Form No. 882-ES) and
pencil(s) No.2. Also bring with you
a blank, formatted diskette with label for the hands-on
part.
CELL PHONES AND
E-MAIL ACCESSES ARE
NOT ALLOWED DURING THE EXAM. Call home
and/or sell your stocks before taking your exam :-)
CHECK THIS COURSE WEBPAGE REGULARLY AND BEFORE
EXAM FOR LAST MINUTE UPDATE (Posted on July 9, 2001)