Web Development II

Development for the web (client-side): HTML, CSS, JavaScript; Data bases; Notions of object-oriented programming.

In the current school year there will be no classes for this curricular unit, only evaluations. 

• List and describe the main needs of the emergence of server-side languages;
• Describe the potential of using Web technologies in an information system;
• Identify and describe the different paradigms of dynamic content page development;
• Choose the most appropriate paradigm for each situation;
• Develop dynamic, efficient and secure web applications based on the various paradigms;
• Develop, provide and use RESTFull APIs.

• Basic concepts of development of dynamic content pages
• The various paradigms of development of pages of dynamic content
• Programming “traditional” dynamic content web pages/applications with PHP
• Introduction and basic concepts;
• Variables and data types;
• Operators, conditional statements and cycles;
• String manipulation
• Array manipulation;
• Functions;
• Handling HTML forms;
• Object-Oriented Programming;
• Handling MySQL databases with PDO;
• Cookies and session variables;
• Internationalization;
• Layouts;
• File Manipulation;
• Sending Emails;
• Development/consumption of REST APIs
• Development of Single Page Applications in “vanilla” JavaScript
• Review of basic concepts of JavaScript
• AJAX
• The Fetch API
• Web page development using a JavaScript framework

NAO

Tavares, F. (2016). PHP com Programação Orientada a Objetos. FCA.

Tavares, F. (2012). Desenvolvimento de Aplicações em PHP. FCA.

Portela, F. (2018). Introdução ao Desenvolvimento Moderno para a web – Do front-end ao back-end: uma visão global! FCA. 

Queirós, R. & Portela, F. (2020). Desenvolvimento avançado para a web – Do front-end ao back-end. FCA.

Other books, articles and/or web pages that may prove relevant during the academic year.