UFCEUS-20-2 Web Programming Prakash Chatterjee Room 3P16 Lecture 1 : Introduction & Course Outline

UFIEUS-20-2 Web Programming2 Teaching and learning: 1 hour lecture 1 hour tutorial/practical emphasis on both individual & group working in practicals Preparation will be required – especially for tutorials and practicals Assessment: Coursework – 1 piece - weighting 50% - will have both group and individual parts Examination – 3 hour exam in summer

3 Course materials: One of the following two [required] set book: Nixon - Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites, O’Reilly, 2009Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites Ullman - PHP 6 and MySQL 5, Peachpit, 2008PHP 6 and MySQL 5 One [strongly] recommended: Ullman - PHP 5 Advanced, Peachpit, 2007PHP 5 Advanced Additional readings will be handed out for tutorials as required All lecture notes and other tutor generated materials will be on available via Blackboard You will be expected to find materials specific to your chosen application for the assignment UFIEUS-20-2 Web Programming

4 PHP basics & MySQL PHP functions and OO PHP XML, XPATH, XSLT & XML Schema E-R modelling & Normalisation XHTML & HTML5 2-tier, 3-tier & n-tier Software Frameworks The Model - View - Controller (MVC) Framework PHP MVC implementations (Zend, Codeigniter & Yii) Architecture & Software Patterns Web Services (SOAP & REST) Javascript & Jquery Software Development Methodologies (Watefall, Prototyping, Spiral, RAD etc.) Course Content Outline :

5 Tutorials and practicals will support, expand on, and apply the lecture topics by means of: practical exercises, discussions of readings, and self directed study Tasks before next weeks session: i)Work through the PHP pages on W3 Schools and read the basic introduction up to and including PHP Switch ii) Ensure that you have XAMPP installed and working on your home machine or laptopXAMPP UFIEUS-20-2 Web Programming

Resources: PHP / MySQL : XHTML XML Module Blog