Software Engineering for Web Applications, Fall 2003
(Complete Item Description)
- Abstract:
Computation over unreliable and anonymous protocols such as the World Wide Web. Problems of persistence, concurrency control, transactions, and transactions across multiple servers. The relational database management system as a tool for attacking these problems. Students work in small mentored teams on diverse projects. This is a course for students who already have some programming and software engineering experience. The goal is to give students some experience in dealing with those challenges that are unique to Internet applications, such as: concurrency; unpredictable load; security risks; opportunity for wide-area distributed computing; creating a reliable and stateful user experience on top of unreliable connections and stateless protocols; extreme requirements and absurd development schedules; requirements that change mid-way through a project, sometimes because of experience gained from testing with users; user demands for a multi-modal interface.
- Subject:
- Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
- Collection:
- MIT OpenCourseWare