CS290 Proposed

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Prefix & proposed course number

CS 290


Web Application Development

Proposed course description

Overview This course is designed to give students the skills needed to implement a dynamic, interactive website. This will cover concepts related to layout, client side interaction and server side scripting.

Topics Layout and Styling

  • HTML 5
    • Differences from previous version of HTML
    • Validation of HTML 5 documents
  • CSS
    • Selectors
    • Pseudoclasses

Client Side Interactions

  • JavaScript
    • Basic use of the language
    • Debugging
  • Ajax
  • ○ Purpose of asynchronous calls ○ Loading and parsing data using an asynchronous call

  • JSON objects
  • JavaScript libraries
    • jQuery

Server Side Scripting

  • PHP
    • Basic use
    • Debugging
    • Sessions
    • GET and POST requests
    • Interaction with a database
  • SQL
    • Basic introduction
    • Use of the language
      • Table creation and deletion
      • Inserting and deleting
      • Selection and updating

Usability

  • Basic concepts of learnability, memorability and efficiency
  • Prototyping for user feedback

Scalability

  • Client side vs server side operations
  • Caching

Security

  • Introduction to various kinds of attacks
    • SQL injection
    • Cross site scripting
    • Man in the middle
  • Design considerations to mitigate risks

Assignments There will generally be assignments that separately cover layout, client side interaction and server side scripting along with a final project that requires students to combine all of these concepts to make a fully functional website. Students should be exposed to 3rd party libraries so after they have been introduced to the different languages they are asked to write a howto guide involving the use of a 3rd party library or API that is related to web development.

Proposed course outcomes (3-5 outcomes)

  • Outcome 1
  • Outcome 2
  • Outcome 3



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