DT228/3 Web Development

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DT228/3 Web Development
Web Development Tech 3402
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Lecturer
Cindy Liu Room K201 Kevin Street Ext
2868 Email cindy.liu_at_comp.dit.ie Website
www.comp.dit.ie/cliu
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Course

• To date, have looked at mostly static website
• HTML
• Client side javascript/ stylesheets etc
• This course focuses on enabling dynamic web
  applications

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Learning outcomes

• Understand the capabilities and functionality
  provided by a web server and have practical
  experience of installing and configuring a web
  server
• Understand, recognize and have some practical
  introductory experience of a variety of
  server-side technologies available for
  development of web applications
• Appreciate and understand the difference between
  the available server side technologies

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Learning outcomes
To able to select and justify an appropriate
application architecture for a web
application Understand how to and have practical
experience of accessing databases across the
web Be able to design and develop a web
application that uses a server side database
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Course Outline
Web servers web servers in an internet
architecture installing and configuring a web
server servicing HTTP requests features
provided by a web server comparing and
contrasting different servers.
Server Pages developing a server side
application using markup language embedded with
programming code
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Course Outline
Accessing databases connecting to a database,
embedded SQL, available databases, database
features necessary in a web application
Server side technologies overview of available
server side technologies, CGI, Perl, PHP, Cold
Fusion, ASP, JSP, Java servlets contrasting
comparing capabilities and functionality
available for server side development recent
advances in server side technologies
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Schedule
Lectures
Tuesdays 10-11 in A28 Thursdays 12
13 in A321
Labs
Wednesdays 10 12 Starting Wednesday 11th
Oct Rooms A115 / A116/ A308 Lab attendance ..
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Course Assessment
Written examination 70
Continuous assessment 30 2 assignments 1
written (20) 1 web site development (80)
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Course Materials
Lectures Notes on http//www.comp.dit.ie/cliu/
Books Internet and the world wide web
2nd edition Deitel, Deitel Neito Java
server Pages 2nd edition Hans Bergsten,
OReilly Further book and web references
throughout course Zip disks/ keys