| CODE | TEM5010 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Internet and Web Technologies | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Technology and Entrepreneurship Education | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit introduces students to the basic concepts and technologies underlying the Internet and the World Wide Web using a practical and hands-on approach, at the same time exploring pedagogies which will help students integrate this knowledge into their chosen area of specialisation. Study-Unit Aims: This study-unit aims to: - Introduce students to the technical infrastructure core concepts underlying the Internet; - Introduce students to the technical infrastructure and core concepts underlying the World Wide Web; - Introduce students to historical, social and ethical aspects of the Internet and the WWW; - Introduce students to Web-page design, coding and deployment; - Promote best-practice in Web-page design - specifically the separation of structure, presentation and function; - Introduce students to the concept of semantic markup; - Introduce students to end-user-oriented Web automation and IoT technologies such as IFTTT, Node-RED, and AppInventor. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe the client-server model and how it is implemented on the Internet; - Describe how HTTP handles the communications between web clients and web servers; - Differentiate between document structure and presentation. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Identify the major structural and semantic elements of a document; - Write syntactically correct HTML markup; - Code web-pages using clean, simple HTML for structure and semantics; - Use core CSS properties to design effective presentation rules; - Organise and maintain a small website consisting of a dozen or so pages; - Automate common web services using technologies such IFTTT and Node-RED; - Code simple apps using AppInventor to interface with existing Web services. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Course notes and links to a variety of online (mostly Web) resources will be provided on the course VLE page. Supplementary Readings: Brown T., Butters K. & Panda S. (2014) Jump Start HTML5. Sitepoint. ISBN: 9781457192326. Wolber D., Abelson H., Spertus E. & Looney L. (2015) App inventor 2: Create your own Android Apps. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media. ISBN: 9781491906842. Crystal, D., (2006). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521868594. Keen, A. (2015). The Internet is not the Answer. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN: 9780802123138. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-unit: TEM5009 | ||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||
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