SWE 444: Internet and Web Applications Development (Dr. El-Alfy@KFUPM)

I. Course Information

Instructor:

Dr. El-Sayed El-Alfy

Office: 22-108,

Phone: 03-860-1930,

E-mail: alfy@kfupm.edu.sa,

URL: http:faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/ics/alfy
Office Hours: SMW@10:00-11:00AM or by appointment

Class Time & Venue: SMW @ 8:00-8:50AM, Room: 22-132

Course Description:

Web Engineering fundamentals: requirements, analysis modeling, design modeling, testing.
Internet basics for web applications. Technologies and tools for developing web applications:
markup languages, styling, data description and transformation, client and server side
programming. Web services. Advances in web engineering.

Pre-requisites: Senior standing.

Objectives

To provide students with conceptual and practical knowledge, and skills required to develop web applications and web services.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, you should be able to:

1. Perform analysis modeling and design modeling for web applications.
2. Identify candidate tools and technologies for developing web applications.
3. Develop user-interfaces for web applications.
4. Describe and transform data using XML and its related technologies.
5. Develop web applications and web services.

Required Material
No official textbook but the lecture slides provides a good start in addition to several web sites that will be made available through the course website

Recommended References

H. M. Deitel, P. J. Deitel, and A. B. Goldberg, Internet and World Wide Web How to Program, 4/e, Pearson Education Inc., 2008.

H. M. Deitel, et al., XML How to Program, First Edition, Pearson Education Inc., 2001.

Roger Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, 6/e, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005. Chapters 16-20

Roger Pressman, Web Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2008.

G. Kappel, B. Pröll, S. Reich, and W. Retschitzegger (eds), Web Engineering - The Discipline of Systematic Development of Web Applications, John Wiley & Sons, 2006. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470015543,descCd-tableOfContents.html and http://www.web-engineering.at/eng/

Grading Policy

Assignments & Quizzes	10 %
Major Exam 1: (Date: Nov. 19, 2008@7:00-9:00PM & Room: TBA)	15 %
Major Exam 2: (Date: Dec. 31, 2008@7:00-9:00PM & Room: TBA)	20 %
Final Exam: (semi-comprehensive) [Date: as announced by the registrar]	25 %
Term Project (Group of 3 or 2): Download Guidelines.	30 %

Tentative Topics

M1.    Web Engineering Fundamentals [~3 Lectures]

a. Introduction to web applications & web engineering

b. Requirements gathering & planning for web engineering

c. Analysis modeling for web Applications

d. Design modeling for web applications (quality dimensions, architectural design)

e. Design modeling for web applications (interface design, content design)

f. Testing web applications

M2.   Internet Basics for Web Applications [~4 Lectures]

a. Introduction to the Internet

b. Client-server basics

c. HTTP

d. Web security

e. Search engines

M3.   Markup Languages and Styling [~6 Lectures]

a. HTML

b. XHTML

c. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

M4.   Client-Side Scripting (JavaScript) [~3 Lectures]

M5.   Data Description and Transformation (XML, XSL, XSLT, DTD, DOM, XSD) [~8 Lectures]

M6.   Server-Side Programming [7 Lectures]

M7.   Web Services, Web Servers (Hosting) [~4 Lectures]

M8.   Advances in Web Engineering [~4 Lectures]

Detailed Schedule of Lectures, Assignments, Quizzes & Exams (Tentative)

Note: Material will be updated as necessary.

Week

Lect.

Date

Lecture Topics

Assignments, Quizzes & Exams

Additional Readings

Additional Activities

Oct 11

Getting Started

Oct 13

Internet Basics for Web Developers (1)

Oct 15

Internet Basics for Web Developers (2)

Oct 18

Internet Basics for Web Developers (3)

Howstuffworks How Web Servers Work

Oct 20

Markup Languages & HTML

Howstuffworks How Web Pages Work

Introduction to HTML

HTML Tutorial ***

HTML 4.01 Specification

download:

MapEdit

Quiz - From EchoEcho.Com!

HTML Quiz from w3schools

Big List of HTML Tags

Oct 22

Markup Languages & HTML (cont.)

hw1 assigned

design your website using HTML

(have your personal account at http://student.kfupm.edu.sa/)

See also: Google Chrome Comic Book

Nov 3

CSS (part 3)

Download and try this CSS editor [TopStyle]

Nov 5

CSS (part 4)

hw2

re-design your personal website using XHTML & CSS

Nov 8

Scripting Languages

Quiz1 on lectures 1-8 (in class)

sample exams

JavaScript Tutorial - EchoEcho.Com ***

JavaScript tutorials, scripts, answers and much more JavaScript

Nov 10

Cont.

Howstuffworks How Internet Cookies Work

Nov 12

Cont.

WDVL Authoring JavaScript

Nov 15

DOM

HTML DOM Tutorial

DOM - MDC

W3C Document Object Model

HTML and DHTML Reference

Student Pres.: Expression Web

Tools:

Mozilla DOM inspector,

IE Developer Toolbar

Nov 17

Form Object and Input Validation Using Regular Expressions

Nov 19

XML (Part1)

Major 1 at 7:00-9:00PM, Room: 24-112

Material from Lectures 1 - 15

sample exams

Nov 22

XML (Part2)

hw2 due

through webct

XML Tutorial

Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition)

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Nov 24

XSL & XSLT

project proposal due

W3Schools' tutorial

Investigating XSLT- The XML transformation language

Nov 26

cont.

Student Pres: Adobe Flex

Resource: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/

https://freeriatools.adobe.com/flex/

Nov 29

XPath

XPath Tutorial

Dec 1

No class. One time off for major1.

School Break (Dec. 3 to Dec. 13) -- No Classes

Read this book

Web Design -- A Complete Introduction

Dec 15

Document Type Definitions (DTDs)

DTD Tutorial

sample chapters

XML Validator: SOAtest

Dec 17

XML Schema Definition (XSD)

XML Schema Tutorial

XML Schema Reference

Dec 18

XML DOM

XML DOM Tutorial

Dec 20

XForms

XForms Tutorial

Dec 22

XLink, XPointer & XQuery

XLink and XPointer Tutorial

XQuery Tutorial

Dec 24

Server-Side Programming (part 1) [2spp], [4spp]

ASP Tutorial

http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/aspnet/default.asp

Dec 27

Server-Side Programming (part 2) [2spp], [4spp]

ASP Tutorial

http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/aspnet/default.asp

Student Pres.

Dec 29

Server-Side Programming (part 3) [2spp], [4spp]

ASP Tutorial

http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/aspnet/default.asp

Dec 31

Server-Side Programming (part 4) [2spp], [4spp]

Major 2 at 7:00-9:00PM, Room: 22-119

Material: JavaScript, XML, XSL/XSLT, XPath, DTD, XSD, DOM, XForms

sample exams

Jan 3

Server-Side Programming (part 5) [2spp] [4spp]

ASP Tutorial

http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/aspnet/default.asp

Jan 5

Server-Side Programming (part 6) [2spp], [4spp]

ASP Tutorial

http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/aspnet/default.asp

ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed Book

Jan 7

Web Engineering (part 1): Introduction [2spp], [4spp]

Roger Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, 6/e, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005. Chapters 16-20

UML-based Web Engineering (UWE)
http://www.pst.ifi.lmu.de/projekte/uwe/

Jan 10

Web Engineering (part 2): Requirements Engineering [2spp], [4spp]

Jan 12

Web Engineering (part 3): Analysis and Modeling [2spp], [4spp]

Jan 14

Web Engineering (part 4): Design and Architecture [2spp], [4spp]

Jan 17

Web Engineering (part 5): Usability and Accessibility [2spp], [4spp]

hw3 assigned

Usability and accessibility- best friends or worst enemies-

Usability, Accessibility and Markup

Web Design Tips + Web Usability & Accessibility

Web usability The basics

Most Important Web Usability Issues

Jan 19

AJAX

[2spp], [4spp]

Gentle Reminder about Course Evaluation

AJAX Tutorial

Getting Started - MDC

Ajax and XMLHttpRequest Tutorial

Another Ajax Tutorial

Ajax (programming) - Wikipedia

Ajax Help and Tutorials

CodeProject AJAX and PHP Building Responsive Web Applications - Chapter 1 AJAX and the Future of Web Applications. Free source code and programming help

Ajax Resource Center

Open Directory - Computers Programming Languages JavaScript AJAX

Safari Books Online - 9780137142309 - Deitel® Developer Series AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and Web Development for Programmers

Jan 21

ASP.NET AJAX

[2spp], [4spp]

AJAX The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

Student Pres.: UWE

Jan 24

Introduction to Web Services

hw3 due (through WebCT)

Web Services Tutorial

Web Services with ASP.NET

ASP.NET Web Services QuickStart Tutorial

Student Pres.: PHP

Related Resources:

A Course on PHP (ppt slides) ***

PHP Tutorial

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP - on Wikipedia

PHP Hot Scripts

The PHP Resource Index

Deitel PHP Resource Center

Remembering Users with Cookies and Sessions (pdf)

Jan 26

Developing, Testing and Consuming Web Services with ASP.NET

[2spp], [4spp]

Jan 28

e-commerce and Web Security

[2spp], [4spp]

Gentle Reminder: Learning Outcomes Survey (on WebCT)

Quiz 2: on ASP.NET

Web Security

Web Application Security Consortium

Web Security Centre

Web Security, Privacy & Commerce O'Reilly Media

Jan 31

Jan 30 before 10pm: Submit a softcopy of the report through WebCT

Jan 31: Project Presentations and Discussions & Hand-in a CD that has the final report, ppt presentation, all software modules, other resources.

The final report must include a description of the project objectives, motivations, requirements, use cases, system and content architecture, navigation model, UI, implementation hints (explaining important fragments only), suggestions for further improvements, citation of the resources and general information about the team members and their role in the project. You may include any other information that you think is needed to your report.

The report should not include a full list of the code.

The softcopy of the code should have proper comments to enhance its readability.

Publish the website for the project on your account before the presentation and make sure it is functioning properly (you should test it and fix all errors early enough before coming to the class)

Feb 9

Final Exam at 7:00PM-9:00PM, Room: TBA by the registrar

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Additional Notes

Course Website & Participation: Students are required to periodically check the course website and download course material as needed. Several resources will be posted through the website as well. Keys to quizzes and exams are generally discussed during class as time permits but solutions will not be posted. WebCT will be used for communication and interaction, posting and submitting assignments, posting grades, posting sample exams, etc. Also it is expected that you get benefit of the discussion board by raising questions or answering questions put by others (up to 5% bonus will be granted based on your active participation and the usefulness of the material you post).

Attendance: Regular attendance is a university requirement; hence attendance will be checked at the beginning of each class. Two late attendances will be considered as one absence. Missing more than 9 lectures will result in a DN grade without prior warning. To avoid being considered as absent, an official excuse must be shown no later than one week of returning to classes.

No make up quizzes or exams will be given.

Re-grading policy: If you have a complaint about any of your grades, discuss it with the instructor no later than a week of distributing the grades (except for the final). Only legitimate concerns on grading should be discussed.

Office Hours: Students are encouraged to use the office hours to clarify any part of the material that is not clear; however the instructor will only provide hints if it is an assigned task but not solve it.

Term Project: Form groups of three or two students (but three is more preferable), pick up a relevant and non-trivial web application, discuss it with your instructor, then go through all different phases of software development; innovative ideas are highly encouraged. All group members are expected to know all the details about the project. (More information about deliverables on WebCT).

Academic Honesty: Students are expected to abide by all the university regulations on academic honesty. Cheating will be reported to the Department Chairman and will be severely penalized. Although collaboration and sharing knowledge is highly encouraged, copying others’ work without proper citation, either in part or full, is considered plagiarism. Whenever in doubt, review the university guidelines or consult the instructor.

Courtesy: Students are expected to be courteous toward the instructor and their classmates throughout the duration of this course. Talking while someone else is speaking will not be tolerated. Furthermore, all cell phones must be turned off during class. In addition, students are expected to be in class on time. Late arrivals will disrupt the class session. If you are 15 minutes late, you will be marked as absent and will not be permitted to enter the class. More importantly, you are not allowed to leave the class unless it is an urgent matter. To contact your instructor, please use email through WebCT whenever possible and avoid using phone calls or written notes. When necessary to send an email through the university email system, please indicate SWE444-081 in the "Subject" field of your email, e.g. SWE444-081: Question about chapter 1.

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