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== Important teaching materials ==
== Important teaching materials ==


Contents addressed within these texts may come up in exam questions. You are not required to memorize any of these, but you should at least read once through the short articles.
TBA
 
=== Recommended free on-line textbooks ===
 
Reading is optional, however strongly recommended for participants who never did any web scripting.
 
=== Mandatory reading list ===
 
* Midterm: items x-y
* Final: all
 
 
=== Some important wiki pages ===
 
See also and/or alternatively: The weekly programs





Revision as of 18:51, 23 August 2016

Introduction

Course materials for COAP 3110 - Interactive Site Development

  • Disclaimer: This is not the official syllabus or course program. EdutechWiki is just used as support site.
  • The course is organized in weekly programs (available through the menu to the right...)

The course-level outcomes as announced in the syllabus are:

  1. Become familiar with server-side programming
  2. Become familiar with technologies for computer to work together in the world of Internet
  3. Create applications used in a variety of settings and devices
  4. Connect and query databases
  5. Connect databases with a Web application
  6. Develop basic database-driven applications

Practical learning outcomes:

  1. Configure an Apache and a MySql server
  2. Install and configure a portal, e.g. wordpress
  3. Create an interesting website using a portal and some extensions, select and/or adapt its skin
  4. Understand various architectures of web services and portals
  5. Develop a simple PHP application using HTML forms and a database table
  6. Frontend and backend programming

Weekly programs

  • Week1 Web site architectures, portalware and web services - The Apache/MySQL/PHP stack (XAMP mobile) - Simple forms-based web applications
  • Week2 Introduction to SQL, using mySQL (MariaDB) with PHP
  • Week3 Installation and configuration of portals (Wordpress)
  • Week4 Skins (theme) configuration and extension management
  • Week5 Mid term, Overview of Web APIs
  • Week6 Use of web services with REST
  • Week7 Overview of development frameworks, term project work.
  • Week8 Term project presentation, final
  • Term project

Grading scale

A	3.8	Very good		92.00	
A-	3.5	Almost very good	89.00
B+	3.1	Pretty good 		85.00
B	2.8	Good			82.00
B-	2.5	Reasonably good		79.00
C+	2.1	Fair	   		75.00
C	1.8	Rather weak / minim.	72.00
C-	1.5	Minimalist / Weak	69.00
D+	1.1	Pass
D	0.8     Pass			62.00

Important teaching materials

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