DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Academic Year 2018/2019 - 3° Year

DATABASES AND WEB PROGRAMMING M - Z

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• DATABASES AND WEB PROGRAMMING
  

  The course covers the fundamental concepts of management and design of database systems.
  Topics include data models (ER and relational); query languages (SQL);
  implementation techniques of database management systems (index structures and nd query processing); noSQL databases.
  In particular, it refers to relational databases and implementation techniques based on the SQL language.

  The learning objectives are:

  a) To understand and use the main technologies for database management.

  b) To design, starting from user requirements, a relational database (and not), from a conceptual, logical and physical perspective.

  c) To use SQL language for performing efficient queries.

• WEB PROGRAMMING
  

  The module deals with the methodological tools for the design of modern web-based information systems (Web Information Systems). In particular the module covers concepts for designing and developing back-end (server-side programming) and front-end (client-side programming), of a web application. Particular emphasis will be given to the development of "responsive" front-ends according to user-experience optimization criteria. The module covers also advanced design and implementation techniques based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern, and web information retrieval techniques such as scraping and crawling.

Course Structure

• DATABASES AND WEB PROGRAMMING
  

  Lectures, hands-on exercises, laboratory and seminars.

• WEB PROGRAMMING
  

  Lectures, hands-on exercises, laboratory and seminars.

Detailed Course Content

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  Models and Languages for Database Management

  • Fundamentals of Database Management Systems (DBMS)
  • Relational Model: basic concepts, integrity* constraints and keys*.
  • SQL language: data definition*, data modification*, queries*, views*, transactions*.
  • Advanced SQL: triggers*, procedures* and assertions
  • An example of relational DMBS: MySQL.
  • NO-SQL database: MongoDB

  Design of databases

  • Conceptual design: E/R model*, conceptual design strategies*, quality verification.
  • Logical design: restructuring of the E / R schemes,* translation into the relational model*.
  • Physical design: storage structures for tables and indices*. Hashing techniques. Query execution and optimization
  • Database normalization: normal forms: third normal form* and Boyce-Codd
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  Foundations of web programming and server-side development

  • HTML 5, CSS e Document Object Model (DOM)*
  • Web Server, Web Client, Web Application, Client-side vs. Server-side processing
  • PHP: Variables*, Arrays*, Procedures*, Interaction with HTML Form*, GET e POST methods*, sessions*, cookies*
  • Database SQL HTML with PHP*

  Web information Systems (WIS) design and client-side application development

  • Analysis and design of interactive processes based on the requirements of the information system*
  • Design principles of front-end interfaces to support the user-experience (UX)
  • Javascript: Procedures*, Objects*, Methods and properties, prototypes*, Dynamic HTML*, Object model (window, document, form)*, events*
  • Jquery: CSS Selectors*, Positition selectors and operations with objects (DOM manipulation)*, events and object-event functions*
  • AJAX: XMLHttpRequest, Ajax function on jQuery, HTML responses, XML and JSON
  • The MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern: examples of software design within an MVC-based framework
  • Web Apps security (SQL injections, HTML/JS injections)
  • Web Information Retrieval: retrieving contents with crawling and scraping in PHP e Javascript

   

  * Minimum required knowledge for passing the exam.

Textbook Information

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  1. Basi di dati - 4/ed, Modelli e linguaggi di interrogazione. Di: Paolo Atzeni, Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Stefano Paraboschi e Riccardo Torlone, Casa editrice: Mc-Graw-HIll

  2. High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication (2011). Di Baron Schwartz e altri, Casa editrice: O'Reilly

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  3. Programmazione Web lato server (2011). Di: Della Mea, Di Gaspero, Scagnetto, Casa editrice: APOGEO

  4. Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5 (2014). Di: Robin Nixon, Casa editrice: O'Reilly