T. Andrew Yang 

(yang@grove.iup.edu)
Computer Science Department

HTTP://WWW.CO103.IUP.EDU/

1. Introduction to Web Development

1. World Wide Web as a new computing platform

2. The client-server model

3. The multi-tier model

4. Sample Web applications

5. Alternative Web development technologies

6. Client side development

7. Server side development

8. Summary

2. Curriculum Design

1. Curriculum Design Issues

2. A Sample Course

3. Lessons Learned

4. Specialty Track in Enterprise Computing

References

Designing and Teaching a Web Development Course

Ö  What have we learned today?

• A blooming, evolving field

• Multi-tier Web based model is excellent for building distributed applications:  

  • scalable, 

  • universal front end

  • highly accessible (if the network does not go down!)

• A next-generation computing platform

• Principles of software engineering still applies.

• Exciting opportunities for Computer Science majors

• Next generation of computing devices

Ö  The next step?

  + For users

• Understand your business's needs and the existing applications

• Evaluate the Web based multi-tier model

   + For developers

• Understand the Web based multi-tier model

• Overview of the leading technologies and products

• Development experience

• On line references

• Special Interest Groups

   + For students

• Get the Computer Science fundamentals!  Be a serious developer.

• Understand the new computing platform that you'd use when you graduate.

• development experience

• familiarity with systems (OS, Web servers, database servers)