Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Jasmine HeeJeong Lee
Contact via jasmine.lee@mq.edu.au
E6A-318
Email or by appointment
Lecturer
Nick Reynolds
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
ISYS303 or COMP332 or COMP345 or COMP333
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit covers the core technologies that make the internet work. Topics include internet standards for web, mail and related protocols, peer-to-peer services, remote procedure calling (RPC), the provision of secure internet services and the design and deployment of XML applications.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Assignment 1 | 15% | Week 5 |
Mid-term test | 15% | Week 6 |
Assignment 2 | 20% | Week 12 |
Final exam | 50% | Exam period |
Due: Week 5
Weighting: 15%
The first assignment is a hands-on assignment requiring you to implement a functional Web application by applying the core knowledge learned during the first half of the semester.
This Assessment Task relates to the following Learning Outcomes:
Due: Week 6
Weighting: 15%
The mid-term test will be delivered in class and will test your understanding of the core Web technology. It is scheduled for week 6.
Due: Week 12
Weighting: 20%
The second assignment is requiring you to develop a basic web application. You will be expected to make a usable Python web application, incorporating all that they have learned so far. More advanced implementations will include security features and some extended functionality.
Due: Exam period
Weighting: 50%
The final exam will test your understanding of the second half of the course's theoretical material. It is scheduled during the exam period. The examination will be closed book and three (3) hours in length.
Regarding the examination process, note that
ITEC831 is taught via lectures and practical sessions in the laboratory. Lectures are used to introduce new material, give examples of the use of programming methods and techniques and put them in a wider context. While lectures are largely one to many presentations, you are encouraged to ask questions of the lecturer to clarify anything you might not be sure of. The practical sessions will typically be divided in two parts. In the first part, you will practice with problems that are directly related to the week's class topic. In the second part, you are free to work related to the practical assignments. The practical assignments will provide you an opportunity to practically learn what it takes to develop a quality Web application.
Each week you should:
Lecture notes will be made available each week but these are not a substitute for your own notes or the reading material.
There are no official required or recommended textbooks for ITEC831 this semester. However, extra reading materials and references might be provided during lectures or in the notes from time to time.
Technology
The main programming language used is python. Prior knowledge of python is not required but highly recommended. Practical knowledge of a modern programming language like Java, Ruby, or .NET languages are required if you are not familiar with python. If you have not used python before, it is recommended that you get yourself familiar with this programming language via books or online resources such as Dive Into Python.
Several tools and software libraries would be used in the class. You would be introduced to them during the class.
For writing reports, students are also expected to make use of a Word processing tool, such as MS Word or Latex.
Discussion Boards
There will be several forums created on iLearn, general ones for the unit and specific ones for the assessed tasks and assignments. Students are encouraged to post questions and discuss in these forums on iLearn.
Submissions of all assessment tasks except written exams are to be done via iLearn. Submission deadlines together with the late submission penalties will be indicated clearly in the corresponding assessment specifications. Resubmission after deadline will not be allowed unless explicitly instructed by the lecturer or tutor.
Extensions of submissions will only be granted under exceptional cases and would evalutated on a case by case basis. All requests for deadline extension have to submitted via academic requests.
Each week (Thursday 6pm-10pm) you should have 3-4 hours of classes, which are mixed of lectures and practical sessions. The normal schedule of each week is:
For the final details of days, times and rooms of class hours, consult the timetables webpage.
Week |
Activities |
Assessment |
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Introduction to WWW: History, HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Installing XAMPP, PHP and MySQL, PHP Programming |
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PHP and MySQL: Create, read, update or delete (CRUD) MySQL database records in PHP. Introduction to MVC Design. Purpose and advantages of MVC compared to Web Forms development |
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CakePHP: MVC development using CakePHP and a simple blog tutorial |
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Python: Data Types, The if Statement, Loops, Functions |
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5 |
Python: Lists, Dictionaries, Object-Oriented Programming, GUI Programming, Exception Handling |
Assignment 1 due Thursday 26 March 2015 at 6pm |
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Mid-semester test |
Thursday 2 April 2015 |
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Python Webservers: Set Up, CGI, Form Processing |
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SQLite Databases and Python: SQL basics, creating and manipulating databases |
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9 |
Further SQLite Databases and Python: Building upon previous week |
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10 |
Securing your Applications: XSS, SQL injection |
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The Flask Framework |
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jQuery/AJAX |
Assignment 2 due Thursday 28 May 2015 at 6pm |
13 |
Wrap-up |
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Grade Appeal Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/gradeappeal/policy.html
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Disruption to Studies Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html The Disruption to Studies Policy is effective from March 3 2014 and replaces the Special Consideration Policy.
In addition, a number of other policies can be found in the Learning and Teaching Category of Policy Central.
Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/support/student_conduct/
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At the end of the semester, you will receive a grade that reflects your achievement in the unit
Your final grade depends on your performance in each part of the assessment. For each task, you receive a mark that combines your standard of performance regarding each learning outcome assessed by this task. Then the different component marks are added up to determine your total mark out of 100. Your grade then depends on this total mark and your overall standards of performance.
In particular, in order to pass the unit, you must
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