Web

This class is taught in English as part of the Master 1 Informatique and of the International Master in Computer Science of the University Nice Sophia Antipolis.


Academic Year 2020-2021

II semester, 3 ECTS.

Previous Editions: 2019-2020, 2018-2019.

Instructor: Prof. Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi.

Objectives

The Web, originally intended to be an open document-sharing platform, has evolved into a distributed platform for the deployment and execution of applications, to the point that it can now be viewed as a sort of global operating system (the programmable web). It has also become a "social machine" and a technological infrastructure for collective intelligence, which constitutes an interesting and complex subject of study. The objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the architecture, standards, languages, and models that allow this huge distributed system to function, without forgetting its societal impact.

Timetable

This course consists of 12 hours of lectures (cours magistral, CM) and 12 hours of lab sessions (travaux dirigés sur machine, TD). Every 3-hour session consists of a lecture followed by a lab session, with a 15-minutes break in between.

Due to the restrictions imposed by the Covid19 pandemics, all sessions (lectures and lab sessions) will take place remotely, on the Discord platform, in Room 282 of the "Master Info Nice" server.

Class Schedule

Unit # Date Subject
1 Monday, February 8, 2021, 09:15-12:30 The Web's Architecture and Protocols
Lab Session
2 Monday, February 22, 2021, 09:15-12:30 A refresher on HTML, CSS, and the Document Object Model
Lab Session
3 Monday, March 8, 2021, 09:15-12:30 The Common Gateway Interface and Server-side Programming
Lab Session
4 Monday, March 15, 2021, 09:15-12:30 Client-side Programming (JavaScript and the HTML5 API)
Lab Session
5 Monday, March 22, 2021, 09:15-12:30 Persistence, AJAX, and REST
Lab Session
6 Monday, March 29, 2021, 09:15-12:30 An introduction to Web Services, UDDI, and SOAP
Lab Session: Creating a Simple Web Service and Clients with JAX-WS
(Here is a Link to the Java 6 EE SDK Download Page)
7 Monday, April 12, 2021, 09:15-12:30 Web Ergonomics
Lab Session
8 Monday, April 26, 2021, 09:15-12:30 Web Science: The Web as an object of study
Lab Session
Exam Monday, June 7, 2021, 10:30-12:30 Written Test (similar to the 2019 test, given her as an example; notes/documents are not allowed).

Support

Slides

The slides used in class may be downloaded by clicking on the title of the corresponding lecture.

On-Line Resources

The official W3C HTML and CSS standards.

Grading

The final grade is computed as the average of three individual grades:


Last Updated on June 3, 2021