Web

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.

Lectures

• The Web’s Architecture and protocols
• A refresher on HTML, CSS, and the Document Object Model
• The Common Gateway Interface and Server-side Programming
• Client-side Programming (JavaScript and the HTML5 API)
• Persistence, AJAX, and REST
• An introduction to Web Services, UDDI, and SOAP
• Ergonomy
• Web Science: The Web as an object of study.

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