CR: Stack II Topics Outline

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Weekly Topics

  • Modern web architecture
  • HTML, CSS: markup languages
  • client-server, stateless vs. stateful servers, HTTP (cookies & other state)
  • Server-side scripting: PHP
  • Database schemas
  • Database query languages & semantics (logic)
  • Dynamic memory management (garbage collection)
  • lexical and dynamic scoping
  • functions as first-class objects
  • eval, JSON
  • domain-specific languages: SQL
  • embedded interpreters
  • scalability for data: NoSQL approaches, database caches

Assignments

  1. PHP/HTML introduction (dynamic generation of web pages)
  2. PHP & Databases: simple SQL
  3. RPC: REST, SOAP, legacy
  4. runtime generation of client code: PHP->JavaScript (AJAX) + DB
  5. first-class functions for dynamic code generation (JavaScript) + DB
  6. closures, scoping + DB
  7. JavaScript: SpiderMonkey
  8. JavaScript: V8