cm3035: Advanced Web Development

Main Info

• Title: Advanced Web Development

• Leader(s): Daniel Buchan

• Semester Taken: April 2022

Abstract

Through this module, you will learn how to build dynamic, data-driven websites using databases, front-end frameworks and server-side programming. This module provides the skill set required to do full stack web development work. By studying this module, you will develop a web developer skill set that enables you to understand how to build and deploy complete, data-driven websites. You will consider several different technologies for client side-web development such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and templates. You will explore methods for developing server-side web applications, by building web-accessible wrappers around databases. You will consider issues of scalability, and learn about web application configuration and deployment.

Syllabus

on the repl

Main Textbooks

Topics

• CM3035 Topic 01: The Web Stack

• CM3035 Topic 02: Database Schemas and ORMs

• CM3035 Topic 03: Interaction through Serving HTML, CSS, and JS

• CM3035 Topic 04: Build a CRUD and RESTful API

• CM3035 Topic 05: CRUD and REST part 2

• CM3035 Topic 06: Asynchronous Web Services

• CM3035 Topic 07: Working with External APIs

• CM3035 Topic 08: User Authentication and Security

• CM3035 Topic 09: Deploying a Website

• CM3035 Topic 10: Load Balancing, Scalability

Related Notes

Great blog post on API design by Alex Krupp