Transcript Module Introduction Presentation

COM621 Interactive Web
Development
Dr. Jose Santos
[email protected]
MS 017A
What is Covered on the
Module...
• Designing Websites that meet the
standards in XHTML
• Styling Websites using CSS
• Include Interactivity with JavaScript
• Include Advanced Features of Web
Development: AJAX, PHP and MySQL
The Timetable
 Fridays, 11.15am – 5.05pm
 Computer Lab: MG122
Module Details
 100% Coursework based
 Module Details, Practicals, & Assignments are all
available from:
http://scisweb.ulster.ac.uk/~jose/COM621/
Coursework
Coursework Rationale
• Gathering information about people is a BIG
business
• One of the driving factors of the web’s growth
is the opportunity that it presents to do this
kind of data gathering along with data mining
in order to improve the marketing of goods
and services
Coursework Requirement
• The CW requirement is for you to build an
INTERACTIVE website which provides a short
quiz/survey for a user and which provides him
or her with some kind of information at the
end, based on the answers
• The Website should use ALL the tools that we
will cover in the semester to provide
interactivity, data storage and some other
tools available in the web’s developer toolbox.
• Assignment 1 – Open Book Class Tests (30%)
– Class Tests will take place on weeks 2,4,6,8 and 10 (at the end of
the practical)
– They will last for about 1-2 hour (specific test time will be
provided on the day).
– Each test will ask the student to consolidate relevant practical
exercises for each of the practicals covered to that point and
create a new element based on the practical being assessed.
– Each of the Class Tests are worth 6%
– Submission will be in the form of a PEN/DRIVE supplied by the
student were all the required source code should be included in
the form of a web development.
– (Pen Drive will be retained at the end of the semester as the
external examiner might want to check student’s work)
About the Practicals
• Note: Each practical takes in average 8-10 hours
to complete, so you should start working on
presentation and completion from early in the
semester
• Only a selection of the exercises will be assessed
in each test, but in order to not miss marks, all
your exercises should be complete by the time
the test starts.
• IF YOU LEAVE THE EXERCISES UNTIL TEST TIME,
YOU WON’T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO COMPLETE
THEM
• Assignment 2: Interactive Web
Development(35%)
– Build an interactive – Database Driven/Supported
website which provides some form of data gathering
(quiz/survey, etc.) for a user and which provides him
or her with some kind of information (feedback) at
the end based on the answers to the questions.
– The overall theme of the site should support the
information being gathered and the feedback been
delivered.
– Watch out for content – Plagiarized content will be
dealt with according with the University
Regulations regarding plagiarism.
– The Information recorded as part of the
quiz/survey needs to be added to a database and
global statistics need to be calculated and
displayed on demand from the website. This
statistics should provide some sort of insight into
people’s views generally about the particular topic
of the website.
• Submission takes the form of a Pen-Drive/CD that
should be submitted alongside assessment 3 to
the school office no later than Friday Week 12 at
2pm.
• A text file (readmen.txt) should be written and
included with the submission; it should contain
information regarding the file structure of your
web development, location of the appropriate
SQL files, appropriate login and password
credentials, etc. This document should not be
larger than 500 words.
Assessment Criteria
• 0-39% - No presentation of the site is available, most of the necessary elements (database support,
use of interactive technologies) are not implemented. The presentation of the functionality and
other necessary aspects of the site offered are not complete or convincing.
•
40% - 49% - The presentation of the site is poor, some of the necessary elements are poorly
implemented or not implemented at all. There is very little evidence of interactivity on the site and
there is very little or no database support on the submission.
•
50-59% - A working presentation must be available on the Web for users to view and interact with.
No technical errors or errors of layout, etc. A representative range of programming techniques must
be displayed appropriately. The presentation of the functionality and other necessary aspects of the
site offered must be complete, and convincing.
•
60-69% - A complete solution; imaginative, novel, and integrated in its conception. The user is left
in no doubt at any stage of what to do next. Striking use of interactive techniques would need to be
in evidence.
•
70+% - A striking departure from the norm which produces a winner application. The presentation
must be self-explanatory, requiring no instruction other than the interface. The basis of a
commercial product. A talking point.
• Assessment 3 - Website Report (35%) – Deadline Friday Week 12 @ 2pm
(school office)
– Write a 3000 words (±10%) report detailing the following points relating to the
web development:
• Rationale for the development
• Design discussion of all the implemented features on the site (including
storyboarding process, database design and use-case diagrams)
• Design discussion of the feedback algorithm implemented for the site.
• Summary of the additional features implemented *
• Summary and analysis of collected data.
• Conclusion obtained from the collected data in relation to the web development
• References
– *Additional features refer to the implementation of technologies not covered
in the module that enhance the functionality and presentation like proprietary
HTML5 and CSS3 features, Responsive web development features, etc.
• A Printed copy of the report should be submitted to the
school office on Friday week 12 no later than 2pm
(alongside with the web-development) – A single CW
submission cover sheet for both submissions should suffice.
• An electronic copy of the report should be submitted
alongside the files that make up your site.
• Format of the Report:
– Single Column
– Tables/Figure numbered and labeled (and called in the text.
– References should use the Harvard style (look for document in
the library resources on the portal)
– The Electronic and Printed Version should have the declaration
of plagiarism (see module handout) in a page alone after the
title page)
• Assessment Criteria
– Level 6 Assessment Criteria for Qualitative Work will
be used to assess the report.
• NOTE: In order to collect data for your website to
use in the relevant sections of the report, you
should ask for your quiz/questionnaire to be
completed by at least 5 members of the class.
Equally, you will be expected to complete a few
quizzes/questionnaires yourself.
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