"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
Mahatma Gandhi

Welcome! Version 4.0, created on January 15, 2014. This is an on-going library of tutorials, references and other educational and research materials, created by Al Bento at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore. Visit also my Daily page.

[Course materials] [Tutorials] [Teaching and research materials] [Linux pages]

Tutorials

• How to setup Kali Linux in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Connecting Mobile devices to PCs and networks
• Basic Apps Common to iOS and Android mobile devices that Sync with PCs and Macs
• Communication Apps Common to iOS and Android mobile devices
• Reference Apps Common to iOS and Android mobile devices
  
• Web introduction (not available in Lynx).
• FTP in Windows.
• Creating a home page.
• Obtaining and using Nvu a free graphical page development editor for Windows, Mac and Linux.
• Obtaining and using Homesite a text-based page development editor for Windows.
• Microsoft Expression Web 3: Overview
• Microsoft Expression Web 3: Site Development, tables and styles
• Microsoft Expression Web 3: More on styles, hotspots, frames
• Microsoft Expression Web 3: Publishing a Web site
• Some basic background colors.
• Lists and modern browsers.
• Tables and modern browsers.
• Access counters in your page: how to have one.
• Editing graphical files in Windows (includes gif animations).
• Using sounds in your page
• Using tables for page formatting.
• Overview of Cascading Style Sheets.
• Frames: many pages in one
• Using Imagemaps with the NCSA Web servers.
• Client-side Imagemaps (most modern browsers)
• Introduction to CGIs and Forms.
• Essential Perl.
• CGIs and Perl scripts.
• Essential JavaScript.
• Introduction to Java Script by Vodoo (mirror authorized by author -- Stefan Koch).
• A scrolling JavaScript
• Sending attachments using Web browsers.
• Windows NT FAQ (mirror authorized by author -- John Savill)

Teaching and research

• Installation and Use of Linux as a client and server operating system.
• A Framework for Analysis of the Use of the World Wide Web for Business with Regina Bento
• A Learning Centered Approach to Education Using Hypermedia and the Internet with Ramu Kannan
• Teaching how to create a home page
• Voice: a case in systems development
• OPC: a case in database design and implementation
• National: a case in Data Flow Diagrams
• Porter Hospital: a case in DSS development
• A paper on DSS development
• Technology and Higher Education

Courses

1. INSS300 - Management Information Systems

   This is an undergraduate core course in MIS. First version: Fall of 1995. Latest version: Fall 2011. All course materials are linked to the course syllabus . Prerequisites: Introduction to Computers, like INSS 100 or equivalent.

2. INSS315 - Information Technology

   This is an undergraduate required course in the BS in MIS and in the BS in Business, CIS specialization. Last version: Spring 2010. All course materials are linked to the course syllabus .Prerequisites: Introduction to Computers, like INSS 100 or equivalent.

3. INSS401 - Internet and Business

   This an elective class for undergraduate students. First offered in 1995. Last version: Spring 2010. All course materials of current version are linked to the course syllabus . Prerequisites: Introduction to Computers, like INSS 100 or equivalent. This course was offered previously as INSS497 - Special Topics in Internet and Business.

4. INSS427 - Business Data Communications

   This is required course in the B.S. in MIS and B.S.B.A. major in CIS programs, with emphasis on networking using Windows . Last version: Fall 2011. All course materials are linked to the course syllabus .

5. INSS452 - Web Server Management and CGI Programming

   This is an elective class for undergraduate students in CIS specialization or in the BS in MIS program. Last version: Fall 2004. All course materials will be linked to the course syllabus. Prerequisites: a working knowledge of Visual Basic and web development basic concepts (see my Internet and Business course).

6. INSS453 - Internet and Network Security

   This is an elective class for undergraduate students in CIS specialization or in the BS in MIS program. Last version: Fall 2009. All course materials will be linked to the course syllabus. Prerequisites: working knowledge of Information Technology (INSS315) and Networking (INSS427), or equivalent.

7. INSS454 - Operating Systems

   This is an elective course in the B.S. in MIS and B.S.B.A. major in CIS programs. Last version: Spring 2007. Created with Presentation Graphics and converted to the Web. All course materials are linked to the course syllabus

8. INSS490 - MIS Capstone Project

   This is the required capstone project class for undergraduate students in the BS in MIS program. Last version: Spring 2007. All course materials are linked to the course syllabus. Prerequisites: all required courses in the BS in MIS program.

9. INSS 610 - Information Systems Techniques

   This was a required course in the MS in MIS Program. Last version: Spring 2002. All course materials are linked to the course syllabus .

10. INSS640 - Information Systems in Business

    This is a core course in the MBA program. Last version: Fall 2005. All course materials will linked to the course syllabus . There is another similar version for the WebMBA.

11. INSS641 - Information Resources Management

    This was a required course in the M.S. in MIS program. Last version: Fall 1995. All course materials are linked to the course syllabus

12. INSS650 - Telecommunications

    This is required course in the M.S. in MIS program, with emphasis on networking using Windows. Last open version: Fall 2006. All course materials are linked to the course syllabus . Offered only on the Web from Spring 2007 on.

13. INSS701 - Internet Development for Business

    This is an elective class for the MBA and M.S. in MIS programs, offered since Summer 1995. Last public version: Summer 2004. Class materials were available on the Web, only, from Spring of 2000 to 2009. Here is the current course syllabus. Prerequisite: INSS640.

14. INSS703 - Information Security Management

    A business-oriented course on organizational information resources security. First version: Spring 2007. Course is taught fully on the Web, and class materials are only available on the Web. You can see the syllabus without links to the class materials, session notes, etc. Prerequisite: INSS640 or equivalent. This course was offered previously as INSS797 - Advanced Topics in IS - Business IT Security.

15. INSS737 - Strategic Management of Information Technology

    This is an elective course in the MBA and M.S. programs. Last version: Fall 2006. Course is taught fully on the Web, and class materials are only available on the Web. You can see the syllabus without links to the class materials, session notes, etc. Prerequisite: INSS640.

16. INSS751 - Operating Systems

    This is an elective course in the M.S. in MIS program. Last version: Spring 2006. Created with Presentation Graphics and converted to the Web. All course materials are linked to the course syllabus

17. INSS752 - Web Server Management and CGI Programming

    This course was offered for the first time in the Spring 2001 as Special Topics (INSS797). Last version: Fall 2004. All course materials are linked to the course syllabus. Prerequisites: a working knowledge of Visual Basic and web development basic concepts (see my Internet Development for Business course).

18. INSS753 - Internet and Network Security

    This course was offered for the first time in the Fall 2001 as Special Topics (INSS797). Last version: Fall 2009. All course materials are linked to the course syllabus. Prerequisites: working knowledge of Telecommunications (INSS650), and Operating Systems.

19. INSS789 - Information Systems Applications

    A field-study project capstone course. Graduate student teams undertake an M.I.S. project in the public or private sector.Last version: Fall 2004. All course materials are linked to the course syllabus. Prerequisites: all required courses of the MS in MIS program.