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CS15020 2014-2015 Web Development Tools. Dr A Shaw Heather Phillips. Course Format. Lectures – all in Physics Main Monday 12.10 pm Tuesday 1.10 pm and 4.10 pm Wednesday 12.10 pm Assignments 3 parts Worth 10%; 10%; 20% Examination 2 hours – worth 60%. What is expected of me?.
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CS15020 2014-2015Web Development Tools Dr A Shaw Heather Phillips
Course Format • Lectures – all in Physics Main • Monday 12.10 pm • Tuesday 1.10 pm and 4.10 pm • Wednesday 12.10 pm • Assignments • 3 parts • Worth 10%; 10%; 20% • Examination 2 hours – worth 60%
What is expected of me? • Attendance at lectures • Compulsory • Bring pen/pencil & paper • Use of laptop/notebook/tablet • Worksheets • For your benefit • Revision • Use Past Papers (http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/past-papers/compsci/) Don’t leave it until the last minute
Course Content page 1/3 • WYSIWYG Web Page Editors: Web development tools. How a web site is hosted. • Database introduction: Creating DBs, creating tables, inserting data, selecting data. • Simple database linking for WordPress and OSCommerce (or similar). • Multi-table databases - Entity-relationship modelling: entities, attributes, relationships, many-to-many relationships. Primary and foreign keys. Derivation of a set of tables from a model.
Course Content page 2/3 • Content, presentation and structure. (X)HTML, CSS. • Validation, web standards, HTML as XML/SGML. Documents as trees. Browser wars. • Client side scripting - ECMAScript (JavaScript) and HTML forms processing. The Document Object Model.
Course Content page 3/3 • Client and server side comparison. Server side includes. The HTTP protocol. Introduction to the principles of server-side programming. • Graphics tools: Graphics Editors and Animation software. • The future of the web: Syndication, search. Web 2.0. Web 3.0. The semantic, social, and mobile web.
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