Laurence Elias

Business and Computer Science Division

 

Fall 2007

 

 

Office:                        Advanced Technology Center Room 303

 

Phone:                        215-619-7452

 

Email:                         lelias@mc3.edu

 

 

SPECIAL NOTICE:

 

  1. The following two courses (CIS158 and CIS245) will be offered in a special “hybrid” format during the Fall 2007 Semester where we will all meet face to face every other week.
  2. Both our On-Line course and our Hybrid Courses will be augmented with the use of Montco’s “Live Meeting” Software known as MC3live.  We will hold several synchronous sessions during the semester where we all meet at a predetermined time over the Internet.

 

 

CIS158 Section TCYH - WINDOWS SERVER 2008/Vista OPERATING SYSTEMS -

 

à NEW MATERIAL FOR THIS COURSE ß

Windows Server 2008 (aka “Longhorn”) and Windows Vista Better Together

 

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 originally began as part of a single development project, and as such they share a number of new technologies across networking, storage, security and management. Although the development of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 have branched into separate releases with different release cycles, many of these enhancements apply to both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. When organizations deploy both operating systems, they will see how the combined client-server infrastructure provides even greater advantages.

 

            Wednesday Evening 6:00PM – 9:50PM – The Brand New Advanced Technology Center Room 224  

NOTE: First Meeting: Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 6:00PM in The Brand New Advanced Technology Center Room 224

 

HYBRID – we meet in The Brand New Advanced Technology Center every other Wednesday Evening for lectures, demonstrations, and step-by-step lab exercises from both our lab manual textbook and other sources provided by the instructor.  Since this is a HYBRID course, the class is only meeting for 50% of the normal class time.  The remaining class work will be completed on-line through Blackboard and by working independently on a significant portion of the lab assignments.  Windows Server 2008 Operating System Evaluation Software supplied with the textbooks will allow for independent work at home by the students.

 

TEXTBOOKS:

Zacker, Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment, McGraw-Hill, 2004

Fugatt, Lab Manual for Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment, McGraw-Hill, 2004

Note: Both the above textbook and its lab manual are bundled under the single McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07294487-0.

           

Byron Wright & Leon Plesniarski, MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Vista, Thomson Course Technology,
ISBN-13:  978-1-4188-3726-6

 

 

 

 

CIS245 Section RCYH - DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS WITH SQL USING ORACLE 9i–

 

à NEW MATERIAL FOR THIS COURSE ß

We will be using SQL Server 2005 in addition to Oracle 9i

 

Monday Evening 5:10PM – 9:00PM The Brand New Advanced Technology Center

NOTE: First Meeting: Monday, September 10, 2007 at 5:10PM in The Brand New Advanced Technology Center

 

HYBRID – we meet in The Brand New Advanced Technology Center every other Monday Evening for lectures, demonstrations, and step-by-step lab exercises from both our lab manual textbook and other sources provided by the instructor.  Since this is a HYBRID course, the class is only meeting for 50% of the normal class time.  The remaining class work will be completed on-line through Blackboard and by working independently on a significant portion of the lab assignments.  Each student has been given software to allow convenient connection to the Oracle Database at Montco from their home or office computer. 

 

TEXTBOOKS:

Post, Database Management Systems: Designing & Building Business Applications, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2004, ISBN 0-07-291919-1

Pratt, A Guide to SQL, 7th edition, Course Technology, 2003 ISBN: 0-619-21674-3

Note: CD supplied by Montco to allow each student access to the College’s Database from home (required to take the course)

 

 

 

CIS122 Section Y01 – VISUAL BASIC

 

à NEW MATERIAL FOR THIS COURSE ß

Many of our Visual Basic Project require us to connect to a Database.

We will be using Visual Basic .NET 2005 to connect to SQL Server 2005 in this course.

 

NOTE: This is an On-Line Course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated 7/31/2007