Friday, October 21, 2011

MIS 400 Exam collection

Please copy paste as comments, your versions of MIS 400 Exam finals.
I have copied in the  MIS 400 final exam that was used in Spring 2011.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Meeting on Wed Oct 19

Error on pg 183, step 2 the semi colon in the if needs to go
The session varable needs a ToString and the paprameter needs to be NVarChar

Concept Quiz 5 has a question the discusses SCRIPT tags
In SbS 5.2 and SbS 6.2 should redirect to the custome rregistration page is session variable is null.
also, in SbS 5.2 add a response.redirect should be in the TRY block.
InsertChecker should become NumRowsAfected

Wiki of common errors
How d we enforce debugging.
1. if people ask for help, check if they debugged

MIDTERM EXAM ISSUES
One problem is that people have not thought out program logic
Solution:
develop flow diagram
then develop pseudo code
use sandbox approach

FINAL EXAM IDEAS
web services, database, inserts,
connection string
insert/update
creating of a webservice
NorthwindEasy
is session variable is null.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Students did ot do well in becaues they don't pay attention to Sbs
use psuedo code the second time around
use a review based exam.

SbS 5.2
week 6 needs 40+ hours

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

MIS400 meeting - midterm and status check

Issues with class in Week 5:
  1. Students are not using Debugging
  2. Some students are making strategic decisions.
  3. <Script> tags in the lecture
  4. Sbs 4.2.1 image is different from the code
Midterm:
  1. Students may not know how bitdata types can be updated
  2. We will use a modified version of the College database, that the students will need to download and copy to SBG folder.