Workshop Hurdle

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.

Late Submission

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.

Classes

COMP6110 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, as well as preview the video content in the following 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.

Required Texts

There is no required text for COMP6110.  We have written a set of notes for the unit which will be added to through the semester. You can find them here:

• Practical Web Programming

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.   

Required Technology

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. Strapi will be introduced as a more robust server-side package in the unit. It implements a backend JSON server that can be used to serve data to a front-end Javascript application. 

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.

The main change is to introduce a more robust server-side package in the unit.  Last year we just had a Python-based server and did not really emphasize the server-side much. Therefore, this time we aim to adopt one 'headless CMS' package - Strapi as a more robust server-side package. It implements a backend JSON server that can be used to serve data to a front-end Javascript application. The advantage is that it’s a commercial package that could be used for real-world web development, so the students will have a realistic view of how to develop a web application.