EE4216Modern Web Applications

What you will study

Course overview

Students will gain fundamental knowledge of designing and implementing reactive and responsive web applications. The contents of this course includes HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Java Servlet, JSP and SQL. Upon completion, students can design and/or build real-world, industrial strength, web-based applications.

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Course content

Basic Principles and Programming Languages Basic concepts of client and server; multi-tier application architecture; internet protocols; ports and addresses; overview of recent developments of web technology and the Internet; AJAX-based rich internet applications; push technologies; real- time web by websocket; CSS3 and HTML5; JavaScript; SQL; Java Servlet and Java Server Page Design Patterns and Architectural Patterns Model-View-Controller (MVC); Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM); Promise; Dependency Injection; Inversion of Control (IoC); Representational State Transfer (REST); Responsive Web Design (RWD); Synchronizer Token Pattern Java Network Programming Multi-threaded program design; race condition and thread interference; synchronization and deadlock; thread-safe programs; stream socket and datagram socket programming; multicast datagram socket; multi-threaded server model Data Storage HTML5 web storage; document stores; key-value stores; relational database; database normalization; database connectivity; database transactions Web Security Security principles; same origin policy; denial of service (DoS), HTML injection; cross-site scripting (XSS); cross-site request forgery (CSRF); SQL injection; man-in-the-middle attack; session hijacking; OAuth and JSON Web Token Selected Topics on Modern Web Frameworks

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Intended learning outcomes

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CILOs                                              Weighting (if DEC-A1          DEC-A2          DEC-A3
                                                                  app.)
1              Explain the basic concepts of the client-server                    x             x
               model, the communication protocols and the
               web architectures.
2              Implement reactive, responsive and distributed                     x             x
               web applications with modern application
               frameworks.
3              Describe the taxonomy of web attacks and be                        x             x
               aware of the security measures in development.

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Before you take this course

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Prerequisites

(EE3206 Java Programming and Applications or EE2311 Object-oriented Programming and Design) and CS3402 Database Systems

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Precursors

CS3103 Operating Systems

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Corequisites

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Additional course requirements

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Equivalent courses and conditions

Nil

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Exclusive courses and conditions

CS4273 Distributed System Technologies and Programming

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Assessment and passing the course

Assessment

Continuous Assessment (%): 60; Examination (%): 40; Examination Duration (Hours): 2

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ATs               CILO No.           Weighting (%)        Remarks ("-" for    Allow Use of
                                                                                  nil entry)          GenAI?
1                       Tests (min.: 2)   1, 2               36
2                       #Assignments      1, 2, 3            24
                        (min.: 3)

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Passing requirements

Remark: To pass the course, students are required to achieve at least 30% in course work and 30% in the examination. # may include homework, tutorial exercise, project/mini-project, presentation

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