Web Technologies

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding:

• Describe how the development of the Web has enabled the creation of new forms of information systems and impacted commerce and public services
• Explain different architectural approaches to application design and contrast traditional approaches with the underlying client–server model of Web applications
• Describe the roles of the range of protocols and standards associated with Web applications and their communications
• Explain the operation and properties of ‘service’, ‘distributed’ and ‘mobile’ approaches to web architecture
• Critically evaluate the role of standardisation bodies, and their published recommendations and standards, in terms of their impact on the development of web applications
• Demonstrate knowledge of a range of different programming languages and explain their differing roles and properties for web applications
• Discuss issues of web design including accessibility, usability, localisation and globalisation
• Explain the role of the open source movement in the development of applications including collaborative development, licensing and reuse of resources
• Explain a range of security issues including secure protocols, use of certificates, authentication, authorisation, and firewalls
• Discuss the nature of static and dynamic content and different approaches to providing content for a website

Cognitive Skills:

• Analyse requirements to produce a design for a simple web application, applying an understanding of requirements for aspects such as usability and accessibility
• Describe a suitable architecture, components and standards as the basis for the implementation of a web application for a public or business organisation
• Construct, using appropriate code, a simple web application, selecting and reusing code where appropriate
• Produce an application which, as appropriate, transforms content and integrates services to produce a mobile application
• Evaluate the suitability of a range of design tools and techniques for the development of an application

Key Skills:

• Find, select and use information from a range of sources to support analysis, design and implementation tasks
• Plan and produce a well-structured and researched quality report as part of a project
• Plan and manage effort and progress whilst undertaking a substantial project

Practical and/or Professional Skills:

• Outline the importance of standards and standardisation bodies
• Maintain an up-to-date view of ongoing developments in web technology including standards and techniques
• Produce design and development plans for a specific technical solution to a challenge in Web application development
• Produce simple project plans for management of time and resources