Tentative course schedule

This week-by-week course schedule is tentative. It is likely to evolve as we progress through the semester. In particular, we will probably move up the material on JavaScript and cover additional client-side technologies toward the end of the semester. We may also study some concurrency concepts.

Week 1

• Introduction and overview
  
• Motivation: rich internet applications (RIA), web 2.0
• Overview of Dynamic HTML (DHTML) = XHTML + CSS + DOM + JavaScript
• Course software
• Projects
  
• References
  

Week 2

• Overview of content markup languages: XML, XHTML, WML, VoiceXML
• Main XHTML content elements
  
• Separation of content from styles: CSS
  

Week 3

• XHTML content and the Domain Object Model (DOM)
  
• Prompting users for input: forms
  

Week 4

• Client-side executable content: Java applets, Active X, JavaScript, Flash
• Event model: DOM elements as event sources, JavaScript functions as event listeners
• Dynamic HTML (DHTML) = XHTML + CSS + DOM + JavaScript
  

Week 5

• Event model (cont.)
• Selenium IDE for automated in-browser system testing
  

Week 6

• Event model: using links as event sources
• DHTML summary
  
• Content syndication
• AJAX overview

Week 7

• JavaScript object and event models
  

Week 8

• JavaScript object model
  

Week 9

• JavaScript object model

Week 10

• Review of IE6 issues
  
• Dojo JavaScript toolkit: intro (PDF)
• Dojo model-view-controller architecture: tutorial

Week 11

• Recap of Dojo MVC architecture
• AJAX and the Dojo bind method (now in DojoAjax example)
  
• Overview of remix/mashup architectures
  
• JSON (JavaScript object notation)

Week 12

• JsUnit framework for automated in-browser unit testing
• Yahoo! Pipes
  
• Mashing up using JSON versus XML

Week 13

• Guest lecture on Google Web Toolkit (GWT)