Web Programming I
Lecture 01
Basic Course Information
Course Name Web Programming I
ECTS 7
Duration 16 Weeks
Lecture 32 Hours (2 hrs/week)
Lab 48 Hours (3 hrs/week)
Tutorial 16 Hours (1 hr/week)
Home Study 96 Hours (6 hrs/week)
Course Objective
Learn how to develop modern web applications
Learning outcomes
● Explain the components involved in enterprise web application
development
● Design web solutions using MVC design pattern
● Build modern database-backed web application
● Design and implement RESTful APIs
● Secure web applications and REST APIs
● Test web applications
● Deploy web application in different modern production environments
Concepts Covered
● HTTP request methods, HTTP response, Sessions and Cookies
● REST API, Routing, Templating, Securing Web Applications
● Data storage, Serving Files, JSON/XML processing
● Concurrency, Testing, Cloud and Container-Based Deployment
Environment Used
Go Programming Language
● Designed to be simple and efficient
● Focuses on programmer effectiveness and speed
● Provides features of functional programming
● Supports Concurrency
● Supports web-development in its standard library
● Suitable for large-scale web application development
Large-scale web development
requirements
● Scalability
○ Vertical and Horizontal scalability
● Modularity
○ Powerful interface construct, functional programing support, microservice development
● Maintainability
○ Simple and readable syntax, code formatting and documentation support, testing
support, modern packaging system
● High Performance
○ Concurrency support that allows multiple requests to be processed at the same time
Assessments
● Quizzes during lecture and lab time (10 %)
● Assignments (10 %)
● Project
○ First Round Evaluation (Formative) - to give you feedback (20 %)
○ Second Round Evaluation and Demo (Summative) (10 %)
● Mid and Final Exams (50 %)
Project Requirements
● Initial step
○ Form project group (Max 5 members)
○ Create trello board and git repository (gitlab/github/bitbucket) account
○ Specify project description and feature list on the trello board
○ Due October 06, 2019
Project Requirements
● On Trello Board provide
○ General project description (The problem the application will solve)
○ The Project title (use specific name related to the problem, do not use Web Programming
I project or similar generic names)
○ Group members full name and Id number
Project Requirements
● Project progress is tracked using
○ Git repository commit history
○ Kanban board on Trello
Project Requirements
● Kanban board
○ You need to
respect Kanban
principles
Project Requirements
● Application feature documentation format
○ Should be written in the form of User Story
○ As a < type of user/role >, I want < some goal > so that < some reason/benefit >
○ Acceptance Criteria
Project Requirements
● User Story Example
Story Name: Customer Order
Description:
As a Customer, I need to place an order so that I can have food delivered to my
house
Project Requirements
● User Story Example
As a Customer, I need to place an order so that I can have food delivered to my house
Acceptance Criteria:
Functional:
● Can I save my order and come back to it later?
● Can I change my order before I pay for it?
● Can I see a running total of the cost of what I have chosen so far?
Project Requirements
● User Story Example
As a Customer, I need to place an order so that I can have food delivered to my house
Acceptance Criteria:
Non-functional: Availability:
● Can I place an order at any time (24 hours per day or 24/7/365)?
● Can I view the order at any time (24 hours per day or 24/7/365) up to and including
delivery?
Project Requirements
● User Story Example
As a Customer, I need to place an order so that I can have food delivered to my house
Acceptance Criteria:
Non-functional: Security:
● Are unauthorised persons and other customers prevented from viewing my order?
Project Requirements
● User Story Example
As a Customer, I need to place an order so that I can have food delivered to my house
Acceptance Criteria:
Non-functional: Security:
● Are unauthorised persons and other customers prevented from viewing my order?
Course Content
● Week 2- Introducing Go
○ Packages, variables, and functions
○ Flow control statements: for, if, if else, switch and defer
● Week 3- Introducing Go
○ Structs, slices, and maps
○ Methods and interfaces
○ Concurrency
Course Content
● Week 4 - Using Go for Web Application
● Week 5 - HTTP Request/Response
● Week 6 and 7- Templating and Routing
● Week 8 and 9 - Data persistency
● Week 10 - Web Services
● Week 11 - Securing Web Application
● Week 12 - Testing Web Application
Course Content
● Week 13 - Concurrency for Performance Improvement
● Week 14 - Internationalization and Localization
● Week 15 - Middleware and Frameworks
● Week 16 - Deployment Options
Resources
● For Go
○ A Tour of Go (https://tour.golang.org/)
○ The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) 1st
Edition, by Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan
○ Effective Go (https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html)
● For Web Development
○ Building Web Apps with Go (
https://codegangsta.gitbooks.io/building-web-apps-with-go/content/)
○ Build Web Application with Golang (
