Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convener, Lecturer
Steve Cassidy
4RPD Level 2
by appointment
Lecturer
Kate Stefanov
Tutor
Salma Khan
Tutor
Anubhav Ashish
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
COMP6010
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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 HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and eXtensible Markup Language (XML), 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:
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 submissions will be accepted but will incur a penalty unless there is an approved Special Consideration request. A 12-hour grace period will be given after which the following deductions will be applied to the awarded assessment mark: 12 to 24 hours late = 10% deduction; for each day thereafter, an additional 10% per day or part thereof will be applied until five days beyond the due date. After this time, a mark of zero (0) will be given. For example, an assessment worth 20% is due 5 pm on 1 January. Student A submits the assessment at 1 pm, 3 January. The assessment received a mark of 15/20. A 20% deduction is then applied to the mark of 15, resulting in the loss of three (3) marks. Student A is then awarded a final mark of 12/20.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Workshop Tasks | 10% | No | Weekly |
Web Design | 5% | No | Week 4 |
Web Application | 35% | No | End of mid-semester break and Week 10 |
Legal & Ethical Report | 10% | No | Week 12 |
Exam | 40% | No | Exam period |
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 0 hours
Due: Weekly
Weighting: 10%
Each week there will be a task set during the practical workshop that you will need to complete. You will need to attend the workshop to complete this task and show your work to your tutor. Each week will be worth 1 mark up to a total of 10.
Assessment Type 1: Design Task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Week 4
Weighting: 5%
This is a design task using CSS. You will be asked to write a CSS stylesheet for a sample web page. The results will be peer-marked - you will be given the chance to see the work of other students and provide marks and feedback. The final mark will be based on marks given by your peers.
Assessment Type 1: Programming Task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 42 hours
Due: End of mid-semester break and Week 10
Weighting: 35%
This is a programming task. You will develop a web application that makes use of a data store. You will be provided with a set of tests that your code must pass as well as a set of functional requirements for the application.
Assessment Type 1: Report
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Week 12
Weighting: 10%
You will write a report on the legal and ethical aspect of web design and development. This will involve you researching the topic to find sources of information and using them to develop your report. You will be provided with pointers to resources but will be expected to find more based on your own research.
Assessment Type 1: Examination
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Exam period
Weighting: 40%
The final exam will asses your ability to describe and explain the technologies we have covered in the unit. It will cover all of the material in the unit.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
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, 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.
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.
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.
Week |
Date |
Topic |
Who |
Assessment |
1 |
21/2 |
Core Web Technology |
SC |
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2 |
28/2 |
HTML and CSS |
SC |
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3 |
7/3 |
Elements of Design |
SC |
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4 |
14/3 |
Introduction to Javascript |
SC |
Web Design |
5 |
21/3 |
Single Page Web Application |
SC |
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6 |
28/3 |
Web Servers and Services, Forms |
SC |
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7 |
4/3 |
Building Server Side |
KS |
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Break |
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Web Application half-way submission |
8 |
25/3 |
Cookies and Sessions |
KS |
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9 |
2/4 |
Usability and Accessibility |
KS |
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10 |
9/4 |
Mobile Web Application |
KS |
Web Application Final |
11 |
16/4 |
Full Stack |
KS |
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12 |
23/4 |
Security on the Web |
KS |
Legal & Ethics Report |
13 |
30/4 |
Review |
SC/KS |
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Unit information based on version 2022.02 of the Handbook