CIS 658 Introduction

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  • Office Hours
  • Course Overview
  • “Big Picture” of this course
    • Not just to teach web technologies, but also “big picture” underlying the technologies.
    • You can learn the web technologies from web pages and video tutorials, but
    • Tutorials will just teach you “magic words”
    • The problem is that when the magic words don’t work, your only recourse is go to back to the Internet for different magic words
    • My goal is to teach you the general principles underlying the technology so that when the obvious thing doesn’t work as expected, you have the context needed to investigate/debug the problem.
      • Debugging by trial-and-error is horribly inefficient
      • Relying on solutions you don’t understand is dangerous (from a business perspective)
• Typically on campus in Allendale 9 - 4 MWF.
• Almost always downtown by 5 on Thursdays.
• Course Project
  • Start thinking about project now.
  • Needs to be more innovative than a couple of “CRUD” pages.
  • Needs to be more innovative than simply taking an existing idea and applying it to a different domain.
    • e.g., I don’t want to see “Twitter for …”, “Instagram for …”, etc.
    • I will make an exception if there are a few features that are specific to the domain that can’t reasonably be generalized.

History of WWW

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