1. Design and Development of Web and Mobile Apps
What are the approaches and problems of building web sites and mobile apps with dynamic content?
Norman White
Norman.White on Google chat

2. Course Covers Designing and implementing web pages
Dynamic web pages (I.e. web pages that are built on the fly and are different for each user)
Alternative architectural approaches
Dynamic data base access from web and mobile
Web 2.0, AJAX, HTML 5
Migration to mobile devices using jquery mobile
Dedicated mobile Apps for Iphone and Android
“Big Data”, or how to handle very large data sets

3. Prerequisites Programming Skills - a little
Data Base skills – a little
Web page skills – moderate
Operating System concepts – some

4. Course Requirements Several homework assignments Mid-term exam
Final Quiz (on-line) (optional?)
Final Project (Group)
One page paper describing your role in project

5. You Will Learn
How to dynamically display data from a data base on a web page using a variety of approaches
Common Gateway Interface Model
New features for dynamic web pages
How to scale up web application performance
Issues in migrating to mobile devices
New HTML5 features for mobile
How to create android and iphone apps

6. Assumptions Class is very heterogeneous
MBA students
MSIS students from computer science
Some students are very technical, some not
Some students have more time than others
We will have to work in teams of varying skill levels
Some teams may work on a conceptual idea, others will implement something
Some members may focus on business aspects, others on technical issues
Classes will be very interactive, syllabus is likely to change

7. Getting Started … Introductions Describe yourself to the class
Full name
Program/major (FT MBA, Langone, MSIS, undergrad)
What is your interest in the class?
Ideally, what would you like to have learned/done by end of semester
Technical skills ?
Ideas for the class?

8. Objectives
Hopefully some of the teams will develop ideas and maybe prototypes of some interesting apps that might continue after the class officially ends.
We have contacts with angel investors for seed money.
may have dedicated incubator space

9. Resources The TA’s have built Web and mobile apps..
Hopefully some of the students have specific knowledge as well.
very interested in helping
Stern Berkley Center will also be involved
Servers, both Windows and Linux are available
A small hadoop (big data) cluster is available

10. On-line materials
This term we will be using material from to make sure that everyone has a similar technical background.
W3schools has mini quizzes on a variety of topics. We will ask that you study the material for a section, and then take the quiz. When you think you have mastered the material, you can take a pass/fail quiz on blackboard. You need to eventually pass each section
Some of the questions will be on the mid-term