Cis 435 Advanced Systems Development- fall 2004 Professor

CIS 435 Advanced Systems Development– Fall 2004

Professor: Alden C. Lorents Office: BA 254 Office Hours: 10-11:45 TWTH, and by Appt - Normally in CBA M-F In Class: 3:45-5 MW and 12:45 – 3:35 TTH Office: 523-3510 Home: 526-8396 7am-10pm E-Mail: [e-mail]

I. CIS 435 Catalog Description

General: Studies high-level programming languages and development environments. Includes analysis of design techniques, characteristics, philosophies, and applications.

Specific for this Semester: Application development in an ERP environment using SAP and the ABAP language. Includes SAP architecture overview, ABAP workbench, ABAP programming, and ABAP objects.

II. Prerequisites 3-6 hours of programming.

III. Course Learning Objectives

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  Overview of the SAP technical Architecture
  
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  Fundamentals of the ABAP language.
  
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  Fundamentals of the ABAP workbench.
  
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    Interactive development environment to build, debug, and test programs.
    
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    Use of the data dictionary.
    
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  SQL and I/O with the database tables.
  
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  Report development - hardcopy, screen displays, screen selects, and drill-down reports.
  
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  Interface with external data files.
  
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  Use of screen painter and the menu painter.
  
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  ABAP programming models
  
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  Application development with ABAP objects.
  

IV. Texts:

ABAP/4 Programming the SAP R/3 System By Bernd Matzke Addison Wesley, 2001. ISBN 0-201-67515-3 Optional – See Amazon.

ABAP Objects Addison Wesley, 2002 ISBN 0-201-75080-5 Optional – See Amazon

ABAP/4 in 21 Days available online at http://freebooks.by.ru/view/Abap4in21day/index.htm , also available from Amazon. Optional Since this content is available online we will refer to this from time to time in the course. Note ABAP/4 chapters in Course Schedule.

ABAP Programming Handbook – College of Business Support Services
V. Grading Policy

You are responsible for alerting the instructor to any missing entries in the grade book. Use E mail or see your instructor on any grade book problems you see. The grade book uses the first 3 digits of your door code for id. Your grade is based on the total points you earn out of the total points available for the semester. The following grading scale can be used as a guideline for your grade as we progress through the semester.

A >= 90% B >= 80% and < 90% C >= 70% and < 80% D >= 60% and < 70% F < 60%

The instructor reserves the right to use judgment in the assignment of final grades relative to applying this scale, extenuating circumstances on the part of the student, missed classes and assignments, and issues that deal with academic integrity.

Approximate Point Distribution for the semester

Exams 3 @ 100 300 65%

Projects and other 162 35%

Total 462
VI. Exams

The format of the exams will be mostly short answer and code snippets. Some objective format may be used. The main emphasis of the exams will be on your understanding and application of the concepts. Normally some syntax help will be available for the exams.

Exam Makeup, Late Assignments, and Missing Assignments

Avoid makeup exams at all costs. Makeup exams must be scheduled with your professor PRIOR to the exam. Late assignments may be penalized. Missing assignments and projects can result in penalty (negative) points when determining the final grade.

VII. Course Policies

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   Student Preparation and Attendance - Projects are to be prepared in a professional manner and turned in. Students are responsible for any class discussions, changes in the assignment schedule or other information given in class. If you are absent it is your responsibility to find out what went on in your absence. There is no makeup of project work assigned and turned in during a class unless you have a university excused absence.
   
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   Academic Integrity - Cheating, copying the work of others, lying, altering documents, forging signatures or documents or assisting others to do so are violations of the University's academic integrity policy. Students who violate this policy can fail the course, be removed from the College of Business Administration, and dropped from the University.
   

3) Deadlines: Drop with grade of “W” by Oct 29 2004

VIII. Homework - See Schedule that follows.
IX. Projects

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   Projects will entail writing code in ABAP to solve various exercises and small projects.
   
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   Projects will cover standard programming constructs, processing data from external files, processing data from database tables, designing screens, and creating reports.
   
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   Projects will be coded and documented based on the format shown in file project.doc.
   
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   Submit projects to me via email [e-mail] Subject line should be in the following format: 435_LastName_L1A. If you email me a question do not have 435_ in the subject line.
   
5. 
   If you use Citrix, you may have to create ABAP MO. Go to New and put in ABAP MO for a name, sapa.umsystem.edu for a server, and 00 for system to create your server node.
   
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   Your developer keys are located in the keysfile.
   

CIS 435 Fall 2004 Schedule

WEEK	TOPICS	READINGS & Links	PROJECTS & PPT Links
1 – Aug 30 – Sept 03	Intro to the Course Intro to SAP	R/3 Basis System – Overview ABAP/4 - 1	Project Doc (Maybe updated during semester)
2 – Sept 06 - 10	Labor Day Sept 6 Workbench Basics Debugger	ABAP/4 - 2	L1A ABAP Workbench
3 – Sept 13 - 17	Airline Model ABAP Basics	ABAP Programming - Overview ABAP/4 – 7,8	L1B ABAP_Basics1 ABAP_Basics2 L2A
4 – Sept 20 - 24	ABAP Basics	Overview Components of App Programming ABAP/4 –9,10	L2B ABAP_Basics3 L3A L3B
5 – Sept 27 - 01	ABAP Basics Lists	ABAP/4 – 14,15	H2 L4A
6 – Oct 04 - 08	Selection Screens and Drill down lists Exam Review Exam I	ABAP/4 - 21	L4E ABAP Events
7 – Oct 11 - 15	Internal Tables	ABAP/4 – 11,12	SCAR and SCAR1 L5A ABAP Tables
8 – Oct 18 - 22	Internal Tables ABAP and SQL	ABAP/4 - 13	L5B
9 – Oct 25 - 29	Internal Tables Performance Tuning		Table variations Performance Projects Table_Stats
10 – Nov 01 - 05	ABAP Modules Dictionary Tables	ABAP/4 – 17,18 ABAP/4 – 3,4	L6 ABAP_Modules L9A Database_Tables
11 – Nov 08 - 12	Dictionary Tables Veterans Day Nov 11 Exam II		L9B
12 – Nov 15 - 19	External I/O ABAP Objects		L9C
13 – Nov 22 - 26	ABAP Objects Inheritance Thanksgiving Holiday		L10A
14 – Nov 29 - 03	ABAP Objects Polymorphism		L10B
15 – Dec 06 - 10	ABAP Objects Final Review
Dec 13 - 17	Exam III	Final 3:00 PM Dec 13

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