ITO5032 · Web applications development

Overview

This unit provides you with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to develop an application system which uses a web interface to a back-end database. The unit assumes a sound basic knowledge of programming and database concepts and skills as developed in the introductory units in these areas. The emphasis in the unit is on mastery of the key concepts and the basic knowledge and skills required to build this kind of application. The unit will provide you with an awareness of the wide range of technologies which are used to support this kind of application, but will examine only a limited number of these technologies to demonstrate the key concepts and their application.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

In-semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate the impact of the history of web applications development on current web-technology;
2. Design, construct and publish web-database applications;
3. Analyse and critique the key technological issues confronting developers building web-database applications;
4. Test the key features of programming languages which are commonly used for developing web-database application;
5. Assess the MVC design pattern and construct a web-database application using the MVC design pattern;
6. Apply, analyse and critique a professional approach towards the development of web-database applications, considering data privacy and cybersecurity aspects

Workload

A minimum of 144 hours over the 6 week teaching period should be used to complete assignments, participating in discussions, private study and revision.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.