Client-side Web Application Development

Course name

Code

CS3105O3

Class	Undergraduate, 2008 - 2011					Package	3
Level	Licenţă	Year	3	Semester	1	Status	Optional

Hours per week				Total hours per semester	Total hours of individual work	Credits	Evaluation type	Teaching language
C	S	L	Pr
2	0	2	0	56	94	5	M	ro

Taught by	Academic and scientific title, name
	Associate Professor, PhD, Sabin Corneliu Buraga

Required courses

Objectives	A general view regarding the design, implementation, and deployment of client-side Web applications by using current standards, programming languages, and best practices. Important topics will be focused on Web interaction and Web engineering.
General thematics	View (presentation) tier Conventional (desktop) versus (mobile) Web interaction Visualizing data. Information architecture. Web user experience. Design patterns SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategies Model tier Structuring and explaining data. Modeling issues POSH (Plain Old Semantic HTML). Microformats. RDFa Controller (programming) tier JavaScript frameworks Consuming Web services in the context of social Web applications Asynchronous communication. Ajax. Comet Using existing Web services. Mash-ups. Case studies Web client engineering Testing Web client applications Performance issues. Caching Web client security. Browser sand-boxing model Extending the browser. Creating Web browser extensions Alternative technologies Adobe Flash and Flex Microsoft Silverlight
Seminary / Laboratory thematics	Main lab topics will cover: HTML 5 and CSS 3 Implementing Web applications via jQuery framework SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Creating Web mash-ups and widgets Web testing with Firebug, Selenium, Y! Slow extensions Developing Web browser extensions
Teaching methods	electronic slides, interactive demos, invited talks

Bibliography

S. Buraga, XML Technologies (in Romanian), Polirom, 2006
S. Buraga (ed.), Web 2.0 Programming (in Romanian), Polirom, 2007
D. Crockford, JavaScript: The Good Parts, O'Reilly, 2008
G. Kappel et al., Web Engineering – The Discipline of Systematic Development of Web Applications, John Wiley & Sons, 2006
A. King, Website Optimization, O'Reilly, 2008
S. Souders, High Performance Web Sites. Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers, O'Reilly, 2007
B. Scott, T. Neil, Designing Web Interfaces. Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction, O'Reilly, 2009
J. Zeldman, Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition), New Riders, 2010
* * *, W3C Web Standards, W3C, 2011: http://www.w3.org/standards/
* * *, Yahoo! Design Pattern Library, 2011: http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/

Evaluation	conditions	practical project + student presentations during the semester
	criterias	The grades of both components (project and assignments) must be greater than 4.
	modes	practical project + student presentations during the semester
	formula	assignments (student presentations): 30% project: 70%

Faculty of
Computer Science