CSC 153: Web Design III- Web Application Programming

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Class Program

Computer Science

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

092434

Meets Degree Requirements For

Restricted Elective

Description

Web application server development, including writing software that runs on the server, database integration, and delivering Web pages generated from HTML templates.

Grading Basis

Graded

Prerequisites

CSC 152 or Instructor Permission

Course Learning Outcomes

Write software that runs in a web server and handles HTTP requests.

Use a SQL database as the primary data storage and retrieval medium.

Generate HTML pages dynamically as information is requested.

Core Topics

Differences between JavaScript and instructor's choice of server programming language
Basic programming (variables, expressions, operators, flow control, functions, objects)
Web Application Framework ( Ruby on Rails, PHP, etc.)
Basics of SQL (select, insert, update)
Use of an object/relational mapping
HTTP request types (GET, POST)
Handling form data
Generating HTML presenting computed or retrieved data, using a template engine
Generating non-HTML results (incl. discussion of content-type and content-disposition)
Responding to asynchronous requests (results in JSON, XML, etc.)
Optimizing web applications with caching, discussion of benefits and trade-offs
Asynchronous server-to-client communication (e.g. long polling, WebSockets) (optional)