Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Disclaimer.
This is an English translation of the module. In case of discrepancy between the translation and the Danish version, the Danish version of the module is valid.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

The student must gain knowledge of the following theories and methods:

• Internetwork
  • Principles for building computer networks; their stratification and structuring
  • Knowledge of common network technologies
  • Internet protocols, especially IP/UDP/TCP/HTTP
  • Internet infrastructure services
  • Security protocols
  • Network programming, especially using sockets
     
• WEB programming
  • Client-server architectures
  • Web technologies, markup and scripting languages
  • Development and use of web apis (e.g. rest)
  • Testing techniques for web applications
     
• One or more topics of the following:
  • Managing network failures
  • Basic concurrency and communication with messages
  • Design patterns for web applications
  • Principles for distributed calculation (master-worker, pipelines, parallel algorithms,...)
  • Protocol design principles
  • Security in web applications

Skills

• Be able to accurately describe and use the terminology and notation for Internet work and web programming of the profession;
• Be able to explain the building of Internet networks and the functioning of key protocols
• Be able to program basic web applications

Competences

• Be able to apply concepts and techniques from Internet work and web programming
   
• Be able to develop basic internet-based applications

Type of instruction

The teaching is organised according to the general teacing forms referred to in § 17.

Extent and expected workload

The student is expected to spend 30 hours per ECTS, which for this activity means 150 hours.

Exam

Exams

Additional information

Contact: Study Board for computer science via cs-sn@cs.aau.dk or 9940 8854