IT430 : E-Commerce

Course Overview

Course Synopsis

This course focuses on the all aspects of online business, like technology, security, e-banking and legal issues. You will be learning about the networks, tools that are used to make online shopping websites, methods used for online payments, technologies used to protect the websites/online data and laws that are related to online shopping. In this course with the help of assignments you will have hands on practice of developing a shopping site. This course combines practical and theory approach to achieve its goals i.e. you will be taught how to use to HTML and Scripting Languages, also you will be studying the payment methods and laws involved in online business.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Discuss the principles of E-commerce and basics of World Wide Web.
  • Use markup languages for designing web pages.
  • Interpret the security issues over the web
  • Explain the concept of E-banking
  • Describe what is electronic payment system and how it works


Course Calendar

1 E-COMMERCE
2 WHAT IS A NETWORK
3 HOW MANY CLASS A, B, C NETWORKS AND HOSTS ARE POSSIBLE?
4 NETWORKING DEVICES
5 BASICS OF HTML
6 BASICS OF HTML (Cont'd)
7 TEXT BOXES, CHECK BOXES, RADIO BUTTONS
Assignment 1
8 FRAMES AND IMAGES IN HTML
9 TAG ATTRIBUTES, SOUNDS FILES, ANIMATIONS
10 STYLE SHEETS
11 STYLE SHEETS (Cont'd)
12 SOME USEFUL STYLE SHEETS PROPERTIES
Quiz 01
13 JAVA SCRIPTING
14 JAVA SCRIPTING (CONTINUED….)
15 JAVA SCRIPTING (CONTINUED…..)
Graded Discussion Board GDB
16 JAVA SCRIPTING AND XML
17 CLIENT AND SERVER SIDE PROCESSING OF DATA
18 APPLETS, CGI SCRIPTS
19 MAINTAINING STATE IN A STATELESS SYSTEM
Quiz 02
20 INTEGRATION WITH ERP SYSTEMS
21 FIREWALLS
22 CRYPTOGRAPHY
23 HASH FUNCTION AND MESSAGE DIGEST
24 SYMMETRIC KEY ALGORITHMS
Midterm Exams
25 VIRTUAL PIN PAYMENT SYSTEM
26 E-CASH PAYMENT SYSTEM
27 E-CASH PAYMENT SYSTEM (Cont'd)
28 SECURE SOCKET LAYER (SSL)
29 E-BUSINESS
30 E-BUSINESS REVENUE MODELS
Assignment 02
31 E-MAIL MARKETING
32 CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM)
Quiz 03
33 META INFORMATION
34 DATA MINING
35 CONFIDENCE AND SUPPORT
Quiz 04
36 ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE (EDI)
37 PERSONAL FINANCE ONLINE
38 SUPPLY CHAIN
39 PORTER’S MODEL OF COMPETITIVE RIVALRY
40 BARRIERS TO INTERNATIONAL E-COMMERCE
41 ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ORDINANCE, 2002 (ETO) (CONTINUED….)
42 ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ORDINANCE, 2002 (ETO) (CONTINUED…...)
43 ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ORDINANCE, 2002 (ETO) (CONTINUED…....)
44 GLOBAL LEGAL ISSUES OF E-COMMERCE
45 GLOBAL LEGAL ISSUES OF E-COMMERCE(CONTINUED….)
46 Pre-Assessment
Finalterm Exams