EECS 485: Web Systems

Covers several key concepts in depth, including: web networking protocols, web databases and applications, web services, web search, web-relevant security issues, web infrastructure, and web-relevant data mining. Students will learn how to incorporate these concepts into an engineering process that includes design, analysis, development and testing, using technologies such as HTTP, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, and others.

Project 1:Templated Static Site Generator

An Instagram clone implemented with a templated static site generator. Write a Python program that takes as input HTML templates, JSON data and misc. static files (like images and CSS) and generates as output a web site of static content. Then, use this tool to build a non-interactive website. The learning goals of this project include HTML, CSS, templates, Python programming, and basic shell scripting.