Back-End Development (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

The course includes approximately 12 supervised work and theory sessions.
Additionally, 10 personal exercises for homework that will be partly demonstrate in during contact session.
Furthermore, the course has a teamwork project that must be done in a group of 4 students.

* Exercise work is done individually outside the instructional sessions. The topic of the assignment is specified during the first month of the course.

* Planned course progress:
Content and topic of lectures. We proceed according to the some chapters in the coursebook.
Note: students will also have some independent study or self-study tasks from the book chapters.

1: Chapters 0-2 of the Course Start Theory and Development Environment Creation Book
2: Modules and a simple web server - chapters 3-4 of the book
3. Chapters 5 and 6 of the Request Processing and Routing Book
4: Chapters 8 and 9 of the Express and MVC book
5: Outlook and Error Handling - Chapters 10 and 11
6: MongoDB Database Connection and Mongoose Schemas and Templates - Chapters 13 and 14 of the book
7: Controllers and Models - Chapter 16 of the book
8: Working with Data Models - Chapters 17 and 18 of the book
9: Working with Data Models - Chapters 19 and 21
10: Sessions and User Authentication - Book Chapters 22-24

* Two lectures will be used for demo and other as yet undefined purposes.

* Each group must set aside 15 minutes for the last week of the course to demonstrate the assignment. Individual teamwork must also be able to demonstrate on this occasion.

* The study plan may change as the course progresses.

Objective

After completing the course the student can:
Knows the main alternatives technologies on the server-side in developing web applications.
Masters one server-side scripting language and can use some important libraries.
Understands the basics of web application architectures.
Can use a content management system or an application framework in implementing a web application.
Can use efficient tools in server-side scripting.

Content

Learning a server-side scripting language.
Introduction to web application architectures.
Integrating a database server to a web application.
Using a content management system or an application framework in implementing a web application.
Tools for server-side scripting.
Implementing a small scale web application.

Materials

* Coursebook:
Get Programming with Node.js
Jon Wexler
Manning Publications
1 edition (March 15, 2019)

* The book is 480 pages, but the reading area of the course is less than 300 pages.

* Unfortunately, the book is not available in electronic form through the library of our educational institution.

Teaching methods

- Programming By doing learning
- Interaction with teacher and classmates
- Teamwork project

Student workload

- 12 times 3h theory and practice: 12 x 3h = 36h
- Home and independent work: approximately 70h
- Teamwork final project: approximately 24h

Total: approximately 130 hours