Web Application Design

AY2019/2020 Semester 1

This design course will equip students with principles, knowledge and skills for the design and construction of web enabled Internet applications. It deals with challenges raised in wide-area distributed computing, including persistence, concurrency and transaction, as well as technologies for creating, managing, and tracking web-interaction state in the environments where the connections are inherently unreliable and protocols are inherently stateless. Specifically, the content covers the architecture of web applications, data presentation, server side programming, data access, state management, data exchange and XML, web services, and personalization. Lab facilities and guidance are provided for the students to practice on the technologies and the skills, go through the steps of web applications, i.e. design, implementation and deployment, with an in house project.