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Software Engineering for Web Applications

Subject: Engineering

Art: Palmer, Edward, 1803-1872, Figures 113-123. Plate Electrical Machines, 1840 · Public domain

Instructors: Prof. Harold Abelson, Dr. Philip Greenspun
Term: Fall 2003
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 2 problem sets · 4 exams · 1 reading · 8 other files · 8 web pages
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Basic db-backed Web sites, AOLserver, Tcl, SQL

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Software Engineering for Web Applications

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Basic db-backed Web sites, AOLserver, Tcl, SQL

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Lecture 1: Required Elements of Sustainable Online Learning Communities Introduction to the RDBMS

Lecture 2: Serialization and Concurrency Control Optimistic and Pessimistic Locking Pitches by Prospective Clents Slides: sql-examples.txt ( TXT ), oracle-multiversion-read.gif ( GIF ), oracle-serializable-transactions.gif ( GIF ))

Lecture 3: Projects Assigned to Teams Code Review of Basics Problem Set Dave Mitchell: Roles on Teams

Lecture 4: Data Modelling: Airline Example ( TXT ) Improving Query Performance with RDBMS B-tree Indices ( GIF )

Lecture 5: Presentations by Teams, Code Review and Discussion Planning Exercises Completed by Teams Dave Mitchell: Risks and Process

Lecture 6: Team Presentations and Discussion Data Model Normalization and Third Normal Form: Make sure you’ve read the normal form sections in the Content Management chapter and maybe this SQL for Web Nerds chapter . We’ll be taking apart this table ( TXT ) for supporting an MP3 sharing service.

Lecture 7: Look and Feel Criticism of Public Internet Sites and Farther-Along Teams

Lecture 8: Team Presentations of Status and Plans

Lecture 9: Team Presentations of Design Decisions and Documentation

Lecture 10: Dave Mitchell: Project Management Wrap-Up

Lecture 12: Discussion of Usability Test Results: Could the numbers have been predicted from the page flow and HTML designs?

Lecture 13: Three-Person Teams Present Wireless (Mobile) or VoiceXML Chapter Exercises

Lecture 14: Presentation of the Refined Systems

Lecture 15: Class discussion of scaling exercises, ideally starting with each answer being presented by a separate team.

Lecture 16: Discussion of team designs for full-text search.

Lecture 17: Cesar Brea returns to help people prepare for the Planning Redux sessions with their clients.

Lecture 18: Team presentations of their work and plans for public launch.

Lecture 19: Take-Home Mid-Term Exam

Lecture 20: Discussion of Exam Questions, Answers, and Implications

Lecture 21: Distributed Computing Exercises Due

Lecture 22: Sapient Corporation: OpenCourseware’s Content Management System

Lecture 23: Ben Adida: Security

Lecture 24: Empirix: Performance Results

Lecture 25: Final Presentations I to Beth Marcus (Entrepreneur), Doug Robinow (Entrepreneur / Lawyer)

Lecture 26: Final presentations II to Ellen Cram (Microsoft Corporation), Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft Corporation), Bob Metcalfe (Ethernet Inventor, 3Com Founder, Polaris Ventures)