Web Architecture 253

Description: Understanding the web’s core technologies from user-facing (HTML, CSS) to underlying (TCP/IP). At the end of the course students will have an overview of what happens between typing an address in a browser and interacting with the web page. We’ll leverage industry accepted technologies to implement a simple web app.
Grading: Homework (30%), midterm (30%), project (40%).
Instructor: Jim Blomo <jblomo@ischool>
GSI: Molly Robison <mrobison@ischool>

Syllabus

Date	Readings	Slides	Homework / Project
Aug 29	A Brief History of the Web & Long Live the Web Optional: Try Git	Intro & Browsers	Git & HW1 - browsers
Sep 5	HTML5 Elements & CSS Selectors ; CSS inheritance ; Optional: Blink Tag	HTML & CSS	HW2 - Personal Page
Sep 12	Optional: Elequent Javascript, jQuery Validate Example, W3C Forms Specification	Forms & Javascript	HW3 - Madlib Form
Sep 19	Architecture of the World Wide Web Sections 1 & 2, Cool URIs don’t change, (Skim) HTTP headers reference, (Optional) Flask	URI & HTTP & HTTP Server	HW4 - Telnet
Sep 26	State Sections 1-5; Learn Python the Hard Way Exercise 39, Dictionaries; Flask Quickstart Rendering Templates, The Request Object	Dynamic Webpages & HTTP Data	HW5 - HTTP Data; Project Part 1
Oct 3	Cookie; REST explained; RESTful APIs Part 1 (especially note on how to model a transaction) and Part 2 (careful, uses an older version of Github API); HATEOAS; Roots of the REST/SOAP Debate (Optional)	ONLINE: Cookies & ReST	HW6 - Github API
Oct 10		Internet, TCP, & DNS
Oct 17		Frontend Performance
Oct 24	Midterm
Oct 31		Storage Systems
Nov 7		Search & SEO
Nov 14		Mobile
Nov 21		Data Mining
Nov 28	Thanksgiving
Dec 5		Security & Your Website	Project Code Due
Dec 12	Project Presentations
Dec 19	-		Project Reports Due