•   Appreciate some of the issues of web application security including an awareness of such attacks as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and identity theft.

•   Be able to write a simple web application in appropriate well-structured technologies (e.g., JavaScript, Node.JS, Vue.JS, React), using a data source for persistent storage (e.g., MySQL or MongoDB), with data queries and updates.

•   Understand the principles behind AJAX and be able to make simple use of it in a web application.

•    Understand some of the extended capabilities provided by HTML5.

•   Understand how web services work (e.g., SOAP-based, RESTful, GraphQL) and be able to design and implement a simple web service.

4 Course team

The course team comprises:

Course coordinator and lecturer

Ben Adams

Room: Erskine 310

Email: benjamin.adams@canterbury.ac. nz

Phone: 03 369 5710

Senior tutor

Morgan English

Room: Erskine 324

Email: morgan.english@canterbury.ac. nz

Lab tutors

Moses Wescombe

Email: mwe50@uclive.ac.nz

Frederik Markwell

Email: fma107@uclive.ac.nz

5 Teaching schedule

The intention is for the lectures and the labs to align and complement each other. The lectures will provide conceptual material together with examples (e.g., code) to demonstrate or illustrate this material. Inevitably, lectures can only provide an overview or introduction to a topic. The labs will provide the opportunity for practical work relating to  the material introduced in the lectures. Table 1 presents the provisional teaching schedule for the course. Students should see their personal timetable for lecture and lab times.

Table 1: Lecture and lab schedule

6 Labs

6.1 Self-study preparatory labs

To take account of the different backgrounds of students in this course we have created self-study labs for students to undertake at the beginning of the course. These labs are  identified on Learn. They cover topics such as version control and Git, and databases.

6.2 Extra-curricular labs

For those who would like to learn more than the course formally covers we have created  additional self-study labs. These will be made available on Learn as the course progresses.

6.3 Scheduled labs

We have developed a series of lab sessions for the scheduled timetable sessions. These are available on Learn.

6.4 Assignment support labs

We have scheduled the labs to provide at least one week in each term for students to explicitly work on their assignments in lab times.

7 Assessment and assessment policy

The assessment will be based on the two assignments and the final exam.

7.1 Schedule for assessment

7.2 NO extended ‘drop-dead’ date on assignments

Due to the way that we test the assignments, the constraints of other assessments on the  course, and that we want to give students as much time to do the assignments as possible, there are no one-week extensions for the assignments. If we introduced a one-week ‘drop- dead’ date we would need to pull the hand-in forward by one week to accommodate the   ‘drop-dead’ date. We would rather just give all students the extra week.

7.3 Assessment policy

The Computer Science department has the following grading policy.

1.   In order to pass a course, you must meet the absolute passing mark for the class; i.e. the weighted sum of all your scored items must meet the absolute passing mark set for the class. Marks are sometimes scaled to achieve consistency between courses    from year to year. Specific passing marks are therefore set on a class-by-class basis.  For example, a total mark of 50% would typically be required to achieve a C- pass; although this may vary. Passing a course with a C- indicates that we believe that you have just mastered the relevant material. Your ranking in the class may be a more     useful indicator of your progress; students ranked above you will receive higher grades, and vice versa.

2.   You must average at least 50% on the invigilated assessment items. (Invigilated        assessment items are those completed under exam conditions, such as oral and written exams and lab tests.) If you achieve less than 50% over these items, you will receive a D, or E, depending on your marks.