CMPS183 Spring 2010: Tutorial Presentation

The idea is to have everyone over the course of the class to present at least once a short overview/tutorial (e.g., 15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes Q&A) of a web engineering topic of choice. Reason is that everyone has probably some particular interest in a web engineering topic, possibly not even covered in class, where one wants to "dig in", or is already an expert - sharing this with the class is a great opportunity to help others get up to speed on this topic, and also is a good practice for presentation skills (good preparation for the final project presentation). The presentation should overall be tutorial style and address those key questions:

What is the technology?
Brief historic overview
How does it work, short tutorial to walk through a simple use case
Why is it important (e.g., overall benefits over X, where X is a similar technology)?
Where is used?
Sample applications on the Web (if applicable)
Links to related resources (e.g., RFC, whitepaper, web sites, videos) for others to learn more

The presentation can be done using a slide deck, printed hand-outs, a wiki / web page, etc. (up to the presenter). Please let me know if you need additional equipment (e.g., a projector) the week before so that I can make sure we have that arranged prior to class. Given the short overall time the presentation should focus on the key highlights, benefits, tutorial aspect so the audience can learn more about it, and determine based on this whether this is something to explore further.

We will start with the presentations in week 2. Please pick a topic by the end of week 1 (email to me) and I will post them on this web page. Topics should not be duplicative (don't want to see 5 different PHP introductions), and will be assigned then on first come, first serve basis. For example, if one wants to do a YQL overview and another one wants to the same, I recommend for both to sync and coordinate to avoid duplication. In that case maybe person 1 can cover some aspects of YQL, whereas the second person can cover some additional YQL topics, or examples different from what the first person covered. Once I have all the topics by end of week 1, I will schedule them over the remainder of the class, so that they ideally topically fit within the corresponding class (or if this is a topic not covered at all we can place it anywhere). We will have these presentations at the beginning of class. Probably 1 or 2 per class max. A schedule will be posted on this page once it is available in early week 2. If you don't have an idea for a topic or would like some suggestions please see me during my office hours or send me an email and I can send some suggestions of topics.

Grading will be done based on the overall quality of the presentation and counts 10% towards the grade (see grading for more details).

The following criteria are used in evaluating your tutorial presentation.

	Points
Quality of the tutorial content Was the tutorial content overall correct and well organized?	2
Comprehensiveness Did the tutorial cover the important aspects from above (e.g., technology and historic overview, how does it work, how can one use it, why is it important, where is it used, sample applications, related resources)	2
Structure Was the presentation overall well structured, easy to follow?	2
Oral Presentation Was the presentation well done, good communication? Was the audience able to understand the key points conveyed?	4
Total points	10

Here are some topic ideas to get you started. These are just ideas and I'm sure there are many, many more that could be of interest to you and make a great topic to augment the class.

Yahoo Developer Network has plenty of technologies to experiment with (YQL, YUI, YAP, SearchMonkey, Yslow, Design Pattern Library, ...)
Google Code (e.g., Ajax APIs, Android, App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, Project hosting, more Google APIs/products)
WebDav
Microsoft Developer Network (lots of MS technologies, ASP.NET, Silverlight, ...)
WordPress (general overview)
WordPress Search
Facebook Platform (lots of topics here)
JQuery plugins

SEO introduction

Presentation List for CMPS 183

Student	Topic	Date
Tim Lindvall	OpenID	April 13, 2010
Ray Calderon	SVN / Subversion	April 15, 2010
Marc Fernandez-Girones	CakePHP framework	April 15, 2010
JD	Facebook API	April 20, 2010
Scott Crew	ASP.NET	April 22, 2010
Christopher Ward	Android API	April 22, 2010
Lee Slater	An Overview of Cloud Computing	April 26, 2010
Irina Gordei	MapReduce in the Cloud	May 4, 2010
Raul Galvan	HTML 5 Overview	May 4, 2010
Donna Samuel	Microsoft Expression Web	May 6, 2010
Seth Devon Helm-Burger	Processing	May 6, 2010
Thomas Paul Anderson	Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN)	May 11, 2010
Marcelo Siero	Entrepreneuring on the Internet and Others Stories of Horror and Imagination	May 11, 2010
Andrew Llavore	Facebook Connect	May 13, 2010
Allison Carlisle	Macromedia Flash	May 13, 2010
Joan Roig Arderiu	Amazon Turk / Human Computation	May 18, 2010
Kevin Murphy	YQL	May 20, 2010
Jesse DeRose	Microformats	May 20, 2010
Cesar Carlos	Ruby Programming Language	May 25, 2010
Nicolas Millasseau	Javascript framework SproutCore	May 27, 2010
Samuel Zweig	jQuery plugins	May 27, 2010