Web Architecture 253

Description

Understanding the web’s core technologies from user-facing (HTML, CSS) to underlying (TCP/IP). At the end of the course students will have an overview of what happens between typing an address in a browser and interacting with the web page. We’ll leverage industry accepted technologies to implement a simple web app.

Grading

Homework (30%), midterm (30%), project (40%).

Instructor

Jim Blomo <jblomo@ischool>

GSI

Molly Robison <mrobison@ischool>

Syllabus

Date	Readings	Slides	Homework / Project
Aug 29	A Brief History of the Web & Long Live the Web Optional: Try Git	Intro & Browsers	Git & HW1 - browsers
Sep 5	HTML5 Elements & CSS Selectors ; CSS inheritance ; Optional: Blink Tag	HTML & CSS	HW2 - Personal Page
Sep 12	Optional: Elequent Javascript, jQuery Validate Example, W3C Forms Specification	Forms & Javascript	HW3 - Madlib Form
Sep 19	Architecture of the World Wide Web Sections 1 & 2, Cool URIs don’t change, (Skim) HTTP headers reference, (Optional) Flask	URI & HTTP & HTTP Server	HW4 - Telnet
Sep 26	State Sections 1-5; Learn Python the Hard Way Exercise 39, Dictionaries; Flask Quickstart Rendering Templates, The Request Object	Dynamic Webpages & HTTP Data	HW5 - HTTP Data; Project Part 1
Oct 3	Cookie; REST explained; RESTful APIs Part 1 (especially note on how to model a transaction) and Part 2 (careful, uses an older version of Github API); HATEOAS; Roots of the REST/SOAP Debate (Optional)	ONLINE: Cookies & ReST	HW6 - Github API
Oct 10	IP, TCP, and HTTP; TCP/IP Overview (Figure 2; Figure 4; TCP; Rest for Overview); How DNS Works; DNS Steps	Internet & TCP and DNS	HW7 - DNS
Oct 17	Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site & (Optional) Steve Souder’s Blog; Google Speed Rules	Front-end Performance (PDF) & Midterm Review	HW8 - GZIP (see frontend slides) canceled
Oct 24	Midterm		Project Part 1 Due (Oct 30)
Oct 31	Why is it hard to scale a database, in layman’s terms?; NoSQL History ; MySQL SELECT (for HW reference) ; Optional: Distributed System Design	Storage Systems	HW9 - DB ; start Project Part 2
Nov 7	Google: A Behind-the-Scenes Look; The Dirty Little Secrets of Search; SEO Starter Guide (skim); Microdata Specification (HW reference) ; PageRank (Original paper, optional)	Search & SEO	HW10 Microdata
Nov 14	Mobile is Eating the World; Tale of Two Viewports (both parts); Multi-touch Web Development; Mobile Best Practices (skim);	Mobile Web & Mobile Development	HW11 Mobile Page
Nov 21	A Taxonomy of Data Science; Apache Hadoop: Petabytes and Terawatts (slides); mrjob (for homework)	Data Mining & Analysis	HW12 - mrjob
Nov 28	Thanksgiving
Dec 5	SQL Injection; XSS example	Security HTTPS & Your Website	Presentaion time signup (see Piazza)
Dec 12	Project Presentations		Project Code Due
Dec 19	-		Project Reports Due