Difference between revisions of "CR: Stack II Topics Outline"

Latest revision as of 12:33, 9 February 2011

learn basics of modern web applications?
basics of dynamic languages
- first class functions
- functional programming concepts (non-mutability)
basics of databases
- data representation
- query languages
basics of distributed applications
- latency vs. bandwidth
- reliability concerns
- state vs. stateless

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 ==Title==
+==Learning Objectives==
+* learn basics of modern web applications?
+* basics of dynamic languages
+** first class functions
+** functional programming concepts (non-mutability)
+* basics of databases
+** data representation
+** query languages
+* basics of distributed applications
+** latency vs. bandwidth
+** reliability concerns
+** state vs. stateless
 ==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, functions that generate other functions
+* eval, JSON
+* domain-specific languages: SQL
+* embedded interpreters
+* scalability for data: NoSQL approaches, database caches
+* mapreduce
 ==Assignments==
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 # PHP/HTML introduction (dynamic generation of web pages)
 # PHP & Databases: simple SQL
+# RPC: REST, SOAP, legacy
 # runtime generation of client code: PHP->JavaScript (AJAX) + DB
 # first-class functions for dynamic code generation (JavaScript) + DB
 # closures, scoping + DB
-# JavaScript: SpiderMonkey
+# JavaScript interpreter in Java (Rhino?)
-# JavaScript: V8
+# scalable database? (BigTable-like?)
-# memcached?