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e-Commerce

Overview of the Course

(Updated on 12-1-2007)

1. About the course: This course is ½ unit elective course. There will be 30 lectures (each 50 min) in total.

2. Assessment: Out of the total marks (50/Credits 2) 20% marks are allocated for in course assessment or class work (that is, lab reports, assignments, class tests, oral presentation etc.) and the remaining 80 % marks are reserved for the final examination. The duration of ½ unit course is 2.5 hours (while for 1 unit it is 4 hours). For the in course assessments I will give only one assignments (which is also to be presented) that weigh 20 % of the total assessments.

3. Recommended Books : There will be no one particular books for this course. The following reference are being recommended to follow:

1) Web search (e.g. Amazon.com)

2) Jeffrey F Rayport and Bernard J Jaworski “e-Commerce”

3) P.T. JOSEPH, “E-Commerce: A Managerial Perspective”

4) Kalakota and Winston,”Frontiers of Electronic Commerce”

5) SAMS, “Teach Yourself-Beginning e-Commerce with Visual basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS

6) SAMS, “Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP.

*(7) Electronic Commerce- NCC Education Limited.

4. Assignment: Design and Document an interactive Commercial Website for any commercial firm [Note: Try to include the best possible features of e-Commerce]. Submit this at least one month before the exam. Marks: 20% of the total assessment.

Abu Sayeed Chowdhury

Teacher IST & Deputy Secretary, M/o Commerce

email:sadmansadif@hotmail.com

e-Commerce

Chapter1 -Introduction [ lect-1,2,3]

1.An Overview

1. What is e-Commerce: e-Commerce refers to the process of buying or selling products or service over an electronic network. The most popular medium in which e-Commerce is conducted is the internet. It combines a range of process such as :

• Electronic Data Interchange...