CMPUT 404
Web Applications and Architecture
Part 01: Introduction
Created by
Abram Hindle
(abram.hindle@ualberta.ca)
and Hazel Campbell (hazel.campbell@ualberta.ca).
Copyright 2014-2023.
Introduction
Web Applications
A web application is graphical computer program that the user interacts with in a web browser. They often also have a server-side component that runs on a webserver. But using a web browser and web server isn't enough to make it "web"...
A web application involves the use of hypertext.
- gmail
- Discord
Topics Covered in this Course
- HTTP
- Web Servers
- Web Browsers
- Web Services
- Dynamic Webpages
- Web Applications
- Frameworks
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- HTML
- XHTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- AJAX/XHR
- XML
- JSON
- Websockets
- Git/Github
- Video
- Audio
- SVG
- REST
- CGI
- Django
- Flask
- Application Web Servers
- Security
- Performance
- Web Mining
- TLS/HTTPS
Course Goals
- Learn about the web from a software developer's viewpoint
- Apply some of what you learned in:
- 5-6 Labsignments (Lab Assignments)
- Course Project
Materials
- eclass
- git & github
- Python 3
- virtualenv
- Web Browser
- Code editor or IDE
- CS Dept lab linux machines
Approach
- I consider this a software engineering class.
- Thus, we are required to behave ethically as engineers.
- Be civil, professional, courteous.
- Help people (students, instructors, TAs) out!
Participation
- I expect you to attend most classes.
- I expect you to ask questions in class.
- I expect you to answer questions in class.
- Exercises are your participation/attendance mark.
Exercises
- There will be a exercise at the beginning of most classes.
- These act as your participation mark for the course.
- At most the first five minutes of class.
- Blank exercises do not count!
Communications
- E-mail your instructor if you want to speak privately.
- Publicly: discussion forum
- Ask assignment/project questions here!
- This allows everyone to see the benefit, because other students have the same questions.
- Office hours: Generally, the hour After class
Academic Integrity
- Course policies and links to the dept/university policies are on the eclass.
- Using code you found online? Make sure you're allowed to use it and cite it!
- Write your own code! For assignments you can talk to your fellow students but you must not share code.
License
Copyright 2014-2023 ⓒ Abram Hindle
Copyright 2019-2023 ⓒ Hazel Victoria Campbell and contributors
The textual components and original images of this slide deck are placed under the Creative Commons is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Other images used under fair use and copyright their copyright holders.
License
Copyright (C) 2019-2023 Hazel Victoria Campbell
Copyright (C) 2014-2023 Abram Hindle and contributors
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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