1. COM621 – Interactive Web Development 2015/2016 Module Co-Ordinator: Dr. Pratheepan Yogarajah E-mail: p.yogarajah@ulster.ac.ukp.yogarajah@ulster.ac.uk Room: MS017A

2. What is Covered on the Module...  Designing Websites that meet the standards in XHTML  Styling Websites using CSS  Include Interactivity with JavaScript  Include Advanced Features of Web Development: AJAX, PHP and MySQL

3. Module Delivery  Lectures 12 hours  Practicals 60 hours  Independent Study 128 hours Module Details  100% Coursework based  Module Details, Practicals, & Assignments are all available from: http://scisweb.ulster.ac.uk/~pratheep/ teaching/COM621/ The Timetable  Fridays, 11.15am – 5.05pm  Computer Lab: MG122

4. Coursework Contribution to CW %Due Date (1) Assignment 1: Practical Tests (Open Book) 30%Friday Weeks 2,4,6,8 and 10 (2) Assignment 2: Interactive Web Development Solution 35%Friday Week 12 (3) Assignment 3: Web Development Report 35%Friday Week 12

5. Assignment 1 – Open Book Tests (30%) Tests will take place on weeks 2,4,6,8 and 10 (at the end of the practical) They will last for about 1-2 hour (specific test time will be provided on the day). Each test will ask the student to consolidate relevant practical exercises for each of the practicals covered to that point and create a new element based on the practical being assessed. Each of the Tests are worth 6% Submission will be in the form of a Pen-Drive supplied by the student (all the required source code should be included in the form of a web development). (Pen-Drive will be retained at the end of the semester as the external examiner might want to check student’s work)

6. Assignment 2: Interactive Web Development (35%) Build an interactive – Database Driven/Supported website which provides some form of data gathering (quiz/survey, etc.) for a user and which provides him or her with some kind of information (feedback) at the end based on the answers to the questions. The overall theme of the site should support the information being gathered and the feedback been delivered. The Information recorded as part of the quiz/survey needs to be added to a database and global statistics need to be calculated and displayed on demand from the website. This statistics should provide some sort of insight into people’s views generally about the particular topic of the website.

7. Assignment 2 (cont.)  Submission takes the form of a Pen-Drive/CD that should be submitted alongside assessment 3 to the school office no later than Friday Week 12 at 2pm.  A text file (readme.txt) should be written and included with the submission; it should contain information regarding the file structure of your web development, location of the appropriate SQL files, appropriate login and password credentials, etc. This document should not be larger than 500 words.

8. Assessment 3 - Website Report (35%) – Deadline Friday Week 12 @ 2pm (school office) Write a 3000 words (±10%) report detailing the following points relating to the web development: Rationale for the development Design discussion of all the implemented features on the site (including storyboarding process, database design and use-case diagrams) Design discussion of the feedback algorithm implemented for the site. Summary of the additional features implemented * Summary and analysis of collected data. Conclusion obtained from the collected data in relation to the web development References * Additional features refer to the implementation of technologies not covered in the module that enhance the functionality and presentation like proprietary HTML5 and CSS3 features, Responsive web development features, etc.