Modern Application Development

This course assumes that the student knows how to develop a typical monolithic desktop single user application. We gradually morph such a desktop app into a web app that uses distributed components and serves multiple users at the same time. In this process, we see how familiar ideas like user interfaces, data storage, and front-end vs backend distinctions get reformulated in the new web aware distributed context. We discover how the assumption of multiple users via multiple access points adds new concerns such as identity management and security, and learn techniques for addressing them. At the end of this course you should be able to build a basic distributed web app and analyse constituent elements of the web and mobile applications that you use daily.

INTENDED AUDIENCE :B.E/B.Tech, B.Sc, M.E/M.Tech, M.S, M.Sc
PREREQUISITES : Undergraduate Programming Experience
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : All Industries that use Computing

COURSE LAYOUTWeek 1 and 2 : From desktop application to internet applicationWeek 3and4 : Stateful applicationsWeek 5and6 : The front endWeek 7and8 : Databases and Simple filesWeek 9 : Setting up a websiteWeek 10 : Using third party web servicesWeek 11and12: Extended project