Web Application Development - Home Page

Welcome to the home page for Web Application Development!

Notes and exercises

Note that at this stage the schedule is indicative and subject to minor changes depending on how students are progressing. Please note however that, unless I explicitly announce that extra time will be given for a topic and that the schedule will change, it is your responsibility to catch up with unfinished work outside of class.

Section A - Web Services and Clients (using PHP)

• 1.Web Services and JSON (Session 1)
• 2.Slim framework, REST (Sessions 2,3)
• 3.Writing Web Service Clients (Session 4)
• 4.POST-based web services and clients (Session 5)
• 5.Further web services - PUT and DELETE (Session 6)

Section B - Client-Side JavaScript

• 6.AJAX and JSON (Session 7)
• 7.DOM (Session 8)
• 8.JavaScript objects (Session 9)
• 9. Javascript classes (Session 10)
• 10.JavaScript Canvas and Events (Session 11, 12)
  • 10a. Further Events: Key events and timers (optional advanced topic)
• 11.Web Mapping (Session 13)
• 12.Further Web Mapping, Geolocation (Session 14)
  • GeoJSON (optional advanced topic)

Section C - Further Topics

• 13. node.js (Session 15, 16)
• 14. MongoDB (Session 17)
• 15. node.js and MongoDB (Session 18)
• 16. Two topics; media queries are introduced in case you have not encountered them before:
  • Media Queries and Viewport Sizing (Session 19)
  • CommonJS Modules (Session 19)
• 17. Use of bind() (Session 20)
• 18. Promises, async/await (Session 21)
• 19. WebSocket (Session 22)
• 20. React - Introduction (Sessions 23, 24)

Wednesday Web Additional Sessions

• OAuth