FIT5032 - Internet applications development
6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL
Postgraduate Faculty of Information Technology
Leader(s): Ms Janet Fraser
Offered
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)
Synopsis
This unit has been designed to provide students with skills to develop Internet Applications with a focus on enabling web page functionality through scripting. The unit presents an overview of multi-tier web applications and the technologies that operate in different layers of typical web architectures. The unit teaches a range of web application development technologies focusing on state-of-the-art object oriented scripting languages for mobile and conventional web applications. Techniques for scripting on the client side (e.g. JavaScript) and scripting on the server side.
Objectives
At the successful completion of this subject students will have:
- an understanding of web environments and their components,
- an understanding of the principles of object oriented scripting and the knowledge of the various uses to which scripting may be put;
- the knowledge and skills to implement web applications, in an applications development environment
- the skills to write scripts to perform a variety of tasks in WAP and conventional web page environments; and
- an understanding of the principles of large scale, and small scale, web site development including an understanding of advanced design principles,
- an understanding of the uses of mark-up languages and meta-languages in structuring data, particularly in a web context,
- the knowledge and skills to implement web sites varying size and complexity, using XHTML, and XML
- a professional attitude towards the development of web based information systems
Assessment
Assingments: 60%, Final examination: 40%
Contact hours
2 hours lectures/week, 2 hours tutorials/week
Prerequisites
For MAIT students, FIT9017, FIT9018, FIT9019, FIT9030, FIT9020 and FIT4037.
Recommended knowledge: It is assumed that all students have a strong knowledge of Java programming