Certificate in Web Applications Development

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Certificate in Web Applications Development
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What Is A Web Application?
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What Is The Certificate?

• Self-contained award comprising
• 6 x 12-week short courses
• 3 x 10 point Level 2
• 3 x 10 point Level 3
• 600 hours of study
• A lot of hard work

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What Is It About?

• Business Goals and Strategies
• Planning and Teams
• Designing and Modelling
• Standards and Protocols
• Tools and Techniques
• Distributed Architectures
• Components, Objects and Scripting

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What Components Does It Use?

• Bought in books
• Study Guides
• WWW Documents
• Promises Web Site and FirstClass
• Practical Work and Software
• Portfolio Web Space
• Multimedia

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How Is It Delivered?

• Two Presentations per year
• Promises Web Sites
• Course Guides, Study Guides, Report Writing
• Assignments, Project
• Certificate CD-ROM, OLA CD-ROM
• Private Web Sites
• Software, Worked Examples, WWW Links

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How Is It Supported?

• Central Academic
• News, Administration, Assessment
• Conference Tutors
• Themes, Self-support
• Student Moderators
• Cafe

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How Is It Assessed?

• 3 CMAs
• Weeks 1 3 6
• Weeks 4 6 6
• Weeks 7 9 6
• Project-based ECA
• Report 70
• Practical 30

Learning Devices
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Whats Different?

• Self-support Model
• Students expectations
• AL expectations
• Course Books
• Accepting whats available
• Adding where necessary
• Publishers support for instructor
• Platform neutral

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Conference Structure

• Themed topics to broaden perspectives
• Purposeful moderation
• Encouraged self-support
• Weekly archiving

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Where Are We?
NOW
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Whats Good?

• Speed of Production
• Autonomy
• Opportunity to try-out
• True pilot phase
• Managing Own Content
• Add-on features to Promises

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Student Enrolment
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Whats Bad?

• Speed of Production
• Finding Texts and Als
• Plenty of reference texts
• ALs with knowledge of subject
• Students and Pre-requisites
• Supporting ill-prepared students
• Marketing
• There is none

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The Courses

• TT280 Design, Development, and Management
• TT281 The Client Side of Web Application
  Development
• TT282 The Server Side of Web Application
  Development
• TT380 - Databases In Websites
• TT381 - Open Source Development Tools
• TT382 - Server Management, Performance, And Tuning

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TT280 Design, Development, and Management

• Business Goals
• Standards Protocols
• HTML, CSS, HTTP
• Browser Compatibility
• Accessibility Usability
• W3C, CAST
• Design
• Structures and Tools
• Performance Assessment

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TT281 The Client Side of Web Application
Development

• Client-Server Architectures
• Accessibility Usability
• Standards
• ECMA, W3C
• Design
• Basic Scripting, Procedures
• Code debugging

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TT282 The Server Side of Web Application
Development

• Server Modelling
• Reliability and Performance
• Security Issues
• Authentication PKI
• N-tier Architectures
• Re-usable Components Objects
• ASP Framework

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TT380 Databases In Websites

• Role of the Database
• Using E-R Diagrams
• Connectivity
• ODBC, OLE-DB
• Standards - SQL92
• Security Issues
• Intra-service authorisation
• Site Indexes and Document Searches

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TT381 Open Source Development Tools

• The Open Source Movement
• History, Goals
• Contributions to Web Applications
• Apache, MySQL
• Collaborative Development
• People and Tools

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TT382 Server Management, Performance, And Tuning

• Management Issues
• Security, Availability, Scalability
• Proxies, Firewalls and DMZs
• PKI Implementation
• Monitoring Performance
• Stress-testing, Logs
• Tuning Performance
• OS, Hardware, Network

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Special Tools

• HTTP Message Viewer
• Web Server
• Round-trip Timer

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Special Web Sites

• Web Certificate
• Telemat Resources
• Promises Site