Lecture Schedule

The schedule listed on this page is tentative and may change during the term. We recommend that you print out the notes for each lecture and bring them with you to class, so that you can add additional notes during class. Recommended readings are listed at the beginning of the lecture notes for each topic.

Week 1

Lecture 1
Mon, Sep 20
Introduction, course organization
HTML[Slides]
Lecture 2
Wed, Sep 22
HTML, cont'd[Slides]
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)[Slides]
Lecture 3
Fri, Sep 24
CSS, cont'd[Slides]
URLs and Links[Slides]

Week 6

Lecture 16
Mon, Oct 25
Javascript[Slides]
Lecture 17
Wed, Oct 27
Javascript, cont'd[Slides]
The Document Object Model[Slides]
Lecture 18
Fri, Oct 29
DOM, cont'd[Slides]

Week 2

Lecture 4
Mon, Sep 27
URLs and Links, cont'd[Slides]
The Ruby language[Slides]
Lecture 5
Wed, Sep 29
No lecture
Lecture 6
Fri, Oct 01
The Ruby language[Slides]

Week 7

Lecture 19
Mon, Nov 01
Events[Slides]
Lecture 20
Wed, Nov 03
Events, cont'd[Slides]
Lecture 21
Fri, Nov 05
Events, cont'd[Slides]
AJAX[Slides]

Week 3

Lecture 7
Mon, Oct 04
The Ruby language, cont'd[Slides]
Rails introduction: templates and controllers[Slides]
Lecture 8
Wed, Oct 06
Rails introduction, cont'd[Slides]
Lecture 9
Fri, Oct 08
Rails introduction, cont'd[Slides]
Introduction to SQL[Slides]

Week 8

Lecture 22
Mon, Nov 08
Security: Network Attacks[Slides]
Lecture 23
Wed, Nov 10
Network Attacks, cont'd[Slides]
Security: Session Attacks
Lecture 24
Fri, Nov 12
Session Attacks, cont'd
Security: Isolation[Slides]

Week 4

Lecture 10
Mon, Oct 11
Introduction to SQL, cont'd[Slides]
Lecture 11
Wed, Oct 13
Active Record[Slides]
Lecture 12
Fri, Oct 15
Active Record, cont'd[Slides]
HTTP and HTTPS[Slides]

Week 9

Lecture 25
Mon, Nov 15
Isolation, cont'd[Slides]
Security: Code Injection[Slides]
Lecture 26
Wed, Nov 17
Code Injection, cont'd[Slides]
Security: Phishing Attacks[Slides]
Lecture 27
Fri, Nov 19
Large-Scale Applications[Slides]

Week 5

Lecture 13
Mon, Oct 18
Cookies and sessions
Forms[Slides]
Lecture 14
Wed, Oct 20
Forms, cont'd[Slides]
Lecture 15
Fri, Oct 22
Forms, cont'd[Slides]

Week 10

Lecture 28
Mon, Nov 29
Large-Scale Applications, cont'd[Slides]
Datacenters[Slides]
Lecture 29
Wed, Dec 01
Deploying Web Applications
Lecture 30
Fri, Dec 03
Course Wrapup
Future of the Web