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Weekly Teaching Schedule for IT-324 Web Development 3(2-1)

  • Course Title: Web Development
  • Course Code: IT-324
  • Credit Hours: 3(2-1)

Course Objectives: The purpose of this course is to provide a practical introduction to basic procedural programming skills using html,css,javascript programming language from scratch.

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)

At the end of the course, the students will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate web technologies, web services and web languages.
  2. What are relevant web services and how to configure and use them
  3. Understand the different components for developing client/server applications.
  4. Understand the enabling technologies for building Internet and Web database applications.
  5. How to develop static and dynamic web pages using different web Technologies

Understanding the internet and the World Wide Web (WWW), Historical overview of web technologies, Key web terminology and concepts, Text editors and integrated development environments (IDEs), Browser developer tools for debugging and testing (1 week)

HTML structure and syntax, Common HTML elements (e.g., headings, paragraphs, lists), Forms and input elements, HTML5 features, (2 week)

Styling web pages with CSS, Selectors and specificity, Layout and positioning, (2 week)

CSS frameworks and pre-processors (e.g., Bootstrap), (1 week)

Introduction to JavaScript, Variables, data types,and operators, Functions and scope, DOM manipulation (interacting with the Document Object Model), Event handling, (2 week) Web APIs and Asynchronous JavaScript (AJAX), (1 week) Introduction to server-side scripting languages (e.g. PHP, Node.js), (3 week) working with databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB), (2 week) Web Servers, xamp Configuration, Building dynamic web applications,Web hosting options, Domain registration and management, Uploading files to a web server, Common web security threats (e.g., XSS, CSRF), Best practices for secure coding, HTTPS and SSL/TLS, Web security tools and practices Industry Trends and Best Practices: Staying up-to-date with the latest web development trends and best practices is essential in this field. (1 week)

Weekly Schedule of Classes

Week #1 Introduction (1 week)

  • Lecture #1: Understating computer programming, how a computer program works
  • Lecture #2: Installing and using a Python development environment (Anaconda + Spyder, Jupyter, Google Colab, etc.)
  • Lecture #3: Modes of using Python (Interactive and Scripting).

Week #2 Input, Processing, Output (3 weeks)

  • Lecture #1: Understanding the importance of Python built-in functions and library functions,
  • Lecture #2: Output statements for phrases,
  • Lecture #3: Declaring and initializing variables of different data types,

Week #3

  • Lecture #1: Concept of mutability, Introduction to errors and exceptions, Input statements,
  • Lecture #2: Output statements for printing values, Dealing with variables of different data types,
  • Lecture #3: Statements for arithmetic expressions and assignments, Basic memory concepts in Python,

Week #4

  • Lecture #1: Importing libraries/modules and importing from libraries/modules, using library functions,
  • Lecture #2: The math module.
  • Lecture #3: Python’s built-in data structures, Identity and Membership operators. (3 weeks)

Week #5 Decision (Selection Structures) and Boolean Logic (2 weeks)

  • Lecture #1: Understanding of the flow control structures in computer programs, Relational operators and Boolean expressions
  • Lecture #2: Single-Selection structure (using if statement), Double-Selection structure (using if-else statement), Multiple-Selection structure (using ifelif-else statement),
  • Lecture #3: Multiple-Selection structure: (using multiple nested if-else statements),

Week #6

  • Lecture #1: Logical or Boolean operators
  • Lecture #2: Planning a computer program
  • Lecture #3 Representations of algorithms: (pseudo-code, program source-code and flowchart).

Week #7 Count-Controlled Repetition Structures (1 week)

Lecture #1: Count-Controlled repetition using for Lecture #2: Count-Controlled repetition using while loops Lecture #3: Generating sequences and sums

Week #8 Sentinel-Controlled Repetition Structures (1 week)

  • Lecture #1: Sentinel-Controlled repetition using while Loop
  • Lecture #2: break and continue statement
  • Lecture #3: Sentinel-Controlled repetition using for loop

Week #9 Introduction to Strings (2 weeks)

  • Lecture #1: String Manipulations
  • Lecture #2: Formatting strings: Adjusting case
  • Lecture #3: Formatting strings: Adding and removing spaces

Week #10

  • Lecture #1: Formatting strings: Finding and replacing substrings
  • Lecture #2: Formatting strings: Splitting
  • Lecture #3: Formatting strings: Partitioning strings

Week #11 User-Defined Functions (2 weeks)

  • Lecture #1: Defining and calling user-defined functions, Value-returning functions,
  • Lecture #2: Local variables,
  • Lecture #3: Global variables and constants

Week #12

  • Lecture #1: Insights into passing arguments to functions, Default arguments, Flexible arguments,
  • Lecture #2: Anonymous (lambda) function
  • Lecture #3: Storing functions in modules

Week #13: Lists and Tuples (2 weeks)

  • Lecture #1: Creating 1D and 2D lists/tuples, Indexing
  • Lecture #2: List: Slicing, Operations
  • Lecture #3 Tuple: Slicing, Operations, Deep copy versus shallow copy,

Week #14

  • Lecture #1: Lists/tuples as function arguments
  • Lecture #2: Explicit traversing in lists
  • Lecture #3: List comprehension

Week #15: Introduction to Miscellaneous Topics (1 week)

  • Lecture #1: NumPy Arrays
  • Lecture #2: Catching Exceptions (try and except)
  • Lecture #3: Creating Dictionaries and Sets.