MIS2402.004- Spring 2024

Department of Management Information Systems, Temple University

Web Application Development

MIS 2402.004 ■ Spring 2024 ■ Jeremy Shafer

Assignment 2 is posted on the class schedule

Hello everyone,

I wanted to share out with you some important updates ….

  1. I have posted assignment 2 on the MIS community site. Assignment 2 will be due 2/15 at 11:59 pm
  2. Later today I will share out the video lecture I promised. I may also provide a bit of assignment 2 help in that video. It would be smart to watch that when I send it out.
  3. I mentioned the following briefly at the start of the semester, but I want to stress this heavily now:
    • I am not teaching you every feature of the JavaScript language.
    • I am not teaching you every feature of jQuery.
    • I am attempting to teach you *just enough* for you to start your programming journey.
    • I will not assign you work to do that requires features/concepts that I have not yet presented in class, or described in the assignment itself.
    • When I see students turn in work that introduces features of JavaScript and jQuery that you have never seen in this course, I will assume that you are cheating in some way. (That is, you are most liking using AI or some other resource.)

If you cheat (or “cut corners” or whatever you want to call it) you do yourself a colossal disservice. You set yourself up for failure later in the semester. You can’t meet the learning objectives of this course by doing this sort of thing.

Sometimes, a student will say, something like “Yes, but I have prior coding experience, and I should be able to use what I know.” After nearly a decade of teaching this material, what most students consistently say to me is “I have never had to code before” and “I don’t know how to program” and so on… and on…

So, if you are one of those rare, lucky, plucky few who actually took a programming course in high school (like I did back at the dawn of time), or took an online course (like I have done many times), I say “Good for you!” 

Please understand though, that this little bit of effort you exerted has put you many miles ahead of your peers. So, I respectfully ask you to play along with the majority of the class.

Who knows? You might just learn something new by taking a step back from what you already know.

Best regards,

Shafer