IT 231 Web Development I
Summary
Introduction to framework-based web development. Students create interactive, dynamic web sites using a common web architecture and object-based database access. Programming for web development includes control structures, objects, functions, and use of composite data types.
Texts
Jonathan Wexler, Get Programming with Node.js, Manning, 2019
ISBN: 978-1617294747
Grading
Grading Breakdown: Final Project: 50%, Assignments: 25%, Quizzes: 25%.
Grading Scale: 94-100:A, 89-93:A-, 85-88:B+, 80-84:B, 75-79:B-, 70-74:C+, 65-69: C, 60-64: C-, 55-59: D+, 50-54: D, 0-49:F.
Late Penalties on Assignments: -33% per day
Prerequisites
Course overview
Week 1
Lesson 1. Configuring your environment
Week 2
Lesson 2. Running a Node.js application
Lesson 3. Creating a Node.js module
Week 3
Lesson 4. Building a simple web server in Node.js
Lesson 5. Handling incoming data
Week 4
Lesson 6. Writing better routes and serving external files
Lesson 7. Capstone: Creating your first web application
Week 5
Lesson 8. Setting up an app with Express.js
Lesson 9. Routing in Express.js
Week 6
Lesson 10. Connecting views with templates
Lesson 11. Configurations and error handling
Lesson 12. Capstone: Enhancing the Confetti Cuisine site with Express.js
Week 7
Lesson 13. Setting up a MongoDB Database
Lesson 14. Building models with Mongoose
Week 8
Lesson 15. Connecting Controllers and Models
Lesson 16. Capstone: Saving user subscriptions
Week 9
Lesson 17. Improving Your Data Models
Lesson 18. Building the user model
Lesson 19. Creating and reading your models
Week 10
Lesson 20. Updating and Deleting your Models
Lesson 21. Capstone: Adding CRUD Models to Confetti Cuisine
Week 11
Final Project
Additional Regulations
Class registration is not allowed after the first week of class.
Students must keep backup copies of all submitted assignments.
By itself, an illness is not a reason to eliminate late penalties.
No extra credit assignments.
The goal of the assignments and projects is to practice the concepts taught in class. You are expected to do your own assignment. However, some collaboration with other students is allowed and even encouraged. Some examples are:
Discussing strategies for solving a problem.
Explaining why a script does not work.
Using code provided by the professor and/or textbook.
Examples of collaboration are not allowed. Doing these examples will be considered a violation of the university’s policy on academic integrity. Violators will receive a 0 for the corresponding assignment and will be reported as required by the policy:
Copying someone else’s code
Telling someone what code to write.
Verify that you are submitting the correct version of a project. Submitting the wrong version of a project is not a reason to waive the late penalty.
You are expected to be respectful to your fellow students and to the professor. The following behaviors will not be tolerated in class and you may be asked to leave if you do not comply by being disruptive, sleeping, working on assignments for other classes, cell phone usage or listening to headphones (during lecture and in-class assignments). Please turn all cell phones to vibrate or silent during class time. If you must take an emergency call, please step outside the classroom to take your call in the hallway, and then return to the classroom in a non-disruptive manner. Text messages, IMs, SnapChat, etc., are not allowed during class. Cell phones and other electronics must be off or silent mode.
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