COAP:COAP-3110
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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:
- Become familiar with server-side programming
- Become familiar with technologies for computer to work together in the world of Internet
- Create applications used in a variety of settings and devices
- Connect and query databases
- Connect databases with a Web application
- Develop basic database-driven applications
Practical learning outcomes:
- Configure an Apache and a MySql server
- Install and configure a portal, e.g. wordpress
- Create an interesting website using a portal and some extensions, select and/or adapt its skin
- Understand various architectures of web services and portals
- Develop a simple PHP application using HTML forms and a database table
- 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
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.
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