Base Knowledge
n. a.
Teaching Methodologies
The following teaching methodologies are used in this course:
Expository method: explanatory method where facts, concepts, principles and generalizations are defined and presented by the teacher and discussed with the class, followed by demonstrative examples;
Experimental method: active method where the student develops knowledge through problem solving and project development, in group dynamics and individual and reflective work
Learning Results
- Identify the main uses of the Internet;
- Describe the operation of clients and web servers;
- Describe the operation of the HTTP protocol;
- Build web pages with HTML correctly written;
- Test web pages in order to identify problems and solve the said problems;
- Building style sheets with CSS;
- Identify the limitations of CSS and apply CSS preprocessors to overcome them
- Building web pages with HTML/CSS frameworks;
- Develop client-side applications with JavaScript;
Program
- Hypermedia
- Initial uses of the Internet
- Hypertext
- Hypermedia
- Historical Evolution
- Clients and web servers
- Basic concepts
- Main types of web clients
- Browsers
- Browser engines
- JavaScript engines
- Text browsers
- Basic web server concepts
- HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
- Protocol definition
- Evolution of the HTTP protocol
- The structure of transactions (requests and responses)
- Main headers
- The various methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, …)
- HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
- Basic concepts
- Basic structure of a document HTML
- Validation of documents HTML
- Metatags
- The elementary tags (p, a, hr, br, img, h1…h6)
- Lists
- Tables
- Forms
- highlights
- Generic containers
- Semantic containers
- Multimedia (video, audio, canvas)
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- Basic concepts
- Validation of CSS files
- Style rules
- The different ways of defining styles (inline, internal, external)
- The main selectors
- Priority between selectors
- Text formatting
- Colours and backgrounds
- Box-model formatting properties
- Pseudo classes and pseudo elements
- Image and table positioning
- Formatting lists
- Positioning types (static, absolute, relative, fixed)
- Flexbox
- Grid-based layout construction
- Responsive design
- 2D and 3D transformations
- Transitions
- Animations
- CSS preprocessing (SASS)
- Basic concepts
- Variables
- Nesting
- Partials
- Mixins
- Inheritance
- Operators
- Media queries
- CSS/HTML frameworks
- Basic concepts
- Building layouts using CSS/HTML frameworks
- JavaScript
- Basic concepts
- The several ways of using JavaScript (inline, internal and external)
- Events
- Functions
- Variables and types of data
- Operators
- Conditions
- Loops
- String manipulation
- Arrays manipulation
- Simple objects
- Forms manipulation
- Web storage
- Cookies
- DOM handling
Curricular Unit Teachers
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Abreu, L. (2015). HTML 5 (4th edition). FCA.
Remoaldo, P. (2011). CSS 3. FCA.
Queirós, R. (2017). Criação rápida de sites responsivos com o Bootstrap. FCA.
Abreu, L., & Carreiro, J. P. (2015). JavaScript 6. FCA.
Portela, F., & Queirós, R. (2018). Introdução ao desenvolvimento moderno para a web. FCA.
Portela, F., & Queirós, R. (2020). Desenvolvimento moderno para a web – do front-end ao back-end. FCA.