East Carolina University
Department of Computer Science

CSCI 4710
Web Applications
Standard Syllabus

Catalog entry

P: CSCI 3700. Integration of several technologies including markup languages, scripting languages, network protocols, interactive graphics, event-driven programming, and databases in enabling Web applications development.

Course summary

This is a course which uses concepts, technologies, and building blocks from computer science, practical software engineering, and business development to design and build web applications. Students gain hands-on experience in web application production, including: client-side markup and programming, server-side programming for data processing, code versioning, accessing web services, and related authentication techniques.

Course topics

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap library.
• Generating dynamic web pages using ASP.NET.
• Data validation - client and server side.
• Database design to support web applications.
• SQL queries to retrieve, store, update and delete data.
• State management. Persisting data between pages in a web application.
• Data models, views and controllers.
• Handling concurrency issues.
• SSL and data encryption. SSL security certificates.
• Authenticating and authorizing users.
• Authenticating and authorizing users.

Student learning outcomes

• Understand the business models of different types of e-Business systems.
• Describe the development process for building a web application.
• Examine different ways to persist web-application data.
• Generate dynamic web-pages.
• Develop web applications using software engineering practices.
• Understand the security issues of web applications.

Textbook

Grading

Grading will be based on two tests, a final exam, assignments and a group project. The tests count 20%, the final exam 20%, assignments 15%, and the group project 45%.

Grade meanings