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Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convener, Lecturer
Steve Cassidy
Lecturer
Mitchell McEwan
Lecturer
Zhu Sun
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
(COMP1010 or COMP125) and (COMP1350 or ISYS114)
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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 a range of techniques and concepts that are relevant to implementing systems on the world wide web. From web site development using HTML and CSS, through to complete client-server applications, the unit explores the full spectrum of this technology, providing insight into the standards underlying the web and the programming techniques used to exploit these standards to build web applications.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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The workshop is a hurdle requirement, you must get 8 out of the possible 10 marks to pass the hurdle but you will have a total of 12 weeks where you could attend - hence you can miss at most four weeks of workshop tasks.
No extensions will be granted without an approved application for Special Consideration. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late. For example, 25 hours late in submission for an assignment worth 10 marks – 20% penalty or 2 marks deducted from the total. No submission will be accepted after solutions have been posted.
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COMP2110 is taught mainly through online notes and video presentations with a one hour lecture. Each week a number of video presentations will be made available on iLearn, you should watch these and follow up on the topics covered before the lecture. The lecture will recap some of the video content and provide a forum for discussion of the topics of the week.
You will also have a two hour workshop each week in the computer laboratory. This will be used as a combined tutorial and practical class, with tasks each week to engage you in the topics we are discussing. The workshops give you a chance to talk over any problems with your tutor. There will be a checkpoint task each week for you to complete in the workshop, you must do this in the workshop and show your tutor the result.
Since your tutor will be keeping track of your marks, you should attend the workshop that you enroll in. If you do need to change, make sure your tutor and the tutor in the new class agree.
There is no required text for COMP2110. We have written a set of notes for the unit which will be added to through the semester. You can find them here:
We will also provide notes, slides and links to other resources each week. It is important that you follow up links provided with the video presentations and in the notes on each topic.
You will be writing server side programs in Python 3.6 . We will use Visual Studio Code as the recommended development environment although you are free to use your own favourite editor if you wish. You will be making use of a number of different web browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, Opera...) to test web pages. All of this software will run on Windows, Mac or Linux.
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The schedule below is the planned topic list for the unit but minor changes may be made in response to student feedback or other factors. See the iLearn unit page for the definitive and more detailed week by week breakdown.
Week | Topic | Assessment |
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1 | Core Web Technology | |
2 | HTML and CSS | |
3 | Elements of Design | |
4 | Introducing Javascript | |
5 | Single Page Web Applications | Web Design |
6 | Web Servers and Services, Forms | |
7 | Mobile Web Applications | |
8 | Cookies and Sessions | |
9 | Accessibility and Usability | |
10 | Building Server Side | Web Application |
11 | Server side security issues | Legal & Ethics Report |
12 | Security on the Web | |
13 | Summary |
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This offering changes emphasis from back-end development using Python to front-end development with Javascript. We still include mention of both but the balance has been flipped. The reason for this is that learning two new languages and environments was too much for one unit. Javascript on the front-end is the most common architecture for modern web applications. Some Python is maintained to allow us to discuss the role of the server side application in web architecture.
New material has been introduced on design, usability and accessibility.
Date | Description |
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12/03/2020 | Clarify the hurdle requirement is 8/12 weeks. |