Programming for the Web

Proposed Sequence:

• Web Part I covered in Web Part I (Term 4 2024)

• Web Part I and II split across Web Part I and Web Part II

• Web Part II covered in Web Part II (Term 1 2025)

• Other covered in a later module

Data transmission using the web

Explore the applications of web programming

Including

interactive website/webpages

Server-side:

• Backend Introduction

• Dynamic Backends

Client-side:

• Javascript

• Interactivity

e-commerce

• Hypertext Overview

progressive web apps (PWAs)

• Progressive Web Apps

Investigate and practise how data is transferred on the internet

Including

data packets

• Internet Layer

internet protocol (IP) addresses, including IPv4

• Internet Layer

domain name systems (DNS)

• Application Layer

Investigate and describe the function of web protocols and their ports

Including:

HTTP, HTTPS

HTTP

• HTTP Overview

• HTTP

• Server Side Scripting

• continued throughout Backend Introduction and Dynamic Backends

HTTPS

• Moved to Secure Software Architecture

TCP/IP

• Networking

• Internet Layer

• Transport Layer

DNS

• Application Layer

FTP, SFTP

• Application Layer

SMTP, POP 3, IMAP

• Application Layer

SSL, TLS

• Moved to Secure Software Architecture

Explain the processes for securing the web

These topics have been moved to Secure Software Architecture where they naturally compliment the material.

Including:

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates

• Moved to Secure Software Architecture

encryption algorithms

• Moved to Secure Software Architecture

encryption keys

• Moved to Secure Software Architecture

plain text and cipher text

• Moved to Secure Software Architecture

authentication and authorisation

• Moved to Secure Software Architecture

hash values

• Moved to Secure Software Architecture

digital signatures

• Moved to Secure Software Architecture

Investigate the effect of big data on web architecture

Including:

data mining

• Big Data’s Impact on the Web

metadata

• Big Data’s Impact on the Web

streaming service management

• Big Data’s Impact on the Web

Designing web applications

Investigate and explain the role of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in the development of applications for the web

Including:

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

• Standards

internationalisation

• Standards

web security

• Standards

privacy

• Standards

machine-readable data

• Standards

Model elements that form a web development system

Including:

client-side (front-end) web programming

• Hypertext module

• Styling module

• continued throughout Backend Introduction and Dynamic Backends

• Javascript and Interactivity

server-side (back-end) web programming

• Backend Introduction

• Dynamic Backends

interfacing with databases that are based on Structured Query Language (SQL) or non-SQL

• Databases and SQL

• Dynamic Backends

Explore and explain the influence of a web browser on web development, including the use of developer (dev) tools

• Performance

• Web Browsers: Evolution and Influence

Investigate cascading style sheets (CSS) and its impact on the design of a web application

Including:

consistency of appearance

• Cascading Style Sheets

• Front End Frameworks

• Responsive Web Design

flexibility with browsers or display devices

• Front End Frameworks

• Responsive Web Design

CSS maintenance tools

• CSS Preprocessors

Investigate the reasons for version control and apply it when developing web application

Students will cover this in the “Software engineering project”.

Explore the types and significance of code libraries for front-end web development

Including:

frameworks that control complex web applications

• Front End Frameworks

template engines

Templating

predesigned CSS classes

• Front End Frameworks

Explain the use and development of open-source software in relation to web development

• Open-Source Software and the Web

Investigate methods to support and manage the load times of web pages/applications

• Performance

Research, experiment with and evaluate the prevalence and use of web content management systems (CMS)

• Content Management Systems (CMS)

Assess the contribution of back-end web development to the success of a web application

This is an implicit knowledge point. If you would like specific content or activities please send feedback.

Observe and describe the back-end process used to manage a web request

Including:

role of webserver software

• Overview

• HTTP

• Server Side Scripting

web framework

• Flask Intro

objects

• Flask Intro

libraries

• Flask Intro

• Databases with Flask

• Templating

databases

• Databases and SQL

• Databases with Flask

Develop a web application using an appropriate scripting language with shell scripts to make files and directories, and searching for text in a text file

Per the NSW DoE resources, this means that students will use a shell (terminal) in the course of developing a web application.

Because the scope of learning to use a shell is quite large, we have moved this to a separate module.

Apply a web-based database and construct script that executes SQL

Including:

selecting fields

• Select

incorporating ‘group by’

• Group By

common SQL queries

• Order By

• Limit

• Insert

• Update

• Delete

constraints using WHERE keyword

• Where

table joins

• Joins

Compare Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) to SQL

• Object-Relational Mapping

Describe how collaborative work practices between front-end and back-end developers improve the development of a web solution

• Front-end and Back-end Collaboration

Design, develop and implement a progressive web app (PWA)

The design elements will be separately addressed from progressive web apps.

• Progressive Web Apps

Including:

the application of design and user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) principles of font, colour, audio, video and navigation

• User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX)

a UI that considers accessibility and inclusivity

• User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX)

• Standards