Web and App Programming (5cr)

Objectives (course unit)

The student is able to:

- apply client-side programming and rich web interfaces to create single page apps for desktop, mobile and tablet.

- use web APIs in dynamic web apps

Content (course unit)

Client-side web and app programming

Prerequisites (course unit)

Basics of the subject.

Location and time

The provisional teaching days will be: 26.1., 2.2., 9.2., 16.2., 23.2., 9.3., 16.3., 23.3., 30.3., 6.4.

Assessment methods and criteria

This will be in 2 parts:
A collection of programming exercises distributed one per week, related to the topic of the week's session (combined value is 50% of total marks for the course)
An assignment to build a single page application (SPA) (worth 50% of total marks for the course)
Both components need to be passed with a mark exceeding 40% to pass the course overall

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

There will be 10 teaching days, each divided into 2 sessions. Each day will be related to a topic, and each session will begin with a lecture related to the day's topic followed by a set of exercises

Learning materials

The course will be based on Jon Duckett's book, JavaScript and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development (Wiley, 2014), and students are recommended to obtain a copy of this.
(https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-JQuery-Interactive-Front-End-Development/dp/111853164 7)
All lecture material and exercises will be made available to students on Tabula

Content scheduling

The provisional allocation of topics to teaching days is as follows
Day 1: Introductory concepts in Programming (sequence, selection and repetition)
Day 2:Functions
Day 3:Objects and Methods
Day 4:Events
Day 5:The Document Object Model (DOM)
Day 6:JQuery
Day 7:Ajax and JSON
Day 8:Web APIs
Day 9:Single Page Applications
Day 10:React Framework

Assessment criteria - fail (0) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

One part(collection of exercises and assignment) failed with a mark of 39% or less, or average mark less than 40%

Assessment criteria - satisfactory (1-2) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Each part(collection of exercises and assignment) passed with a mark of 40% or more, average mark between 40- 54%

Assessment criteria - good (3-4) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Each part(collection of exercises and assignment) passed with a mark of 40% or more, average mark between 55- 74%

Assessment criteria - excellent (5) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Each part(collection of exercises and assignment) passed with a mark of 40% or more, average mark of 75% or more