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Web Application Development: Basic Concepts

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Created by: Greg Heileman and Manel MartAnez-RamAn

Course Description

This is the first course in a Coursera Specialization track involving Web Application Architectures. This course will give you the basic background, terminology and fundamental concepts that you need to understand in order to build modern full stack web applications. A full stack web developer is familiar with each "layer" of the software technologies involved in a web application, including data modeling and database technologies, the web server environment and middleware components, network protocols, the user interface and basic visual design and user interaction concepts. In this course we will learn by doing. We will start by learning the major components of web application architectures, along with the fundamental design patterns and philosophies that are used to organize them. You will build and continually refine a fully functiol full-stack web application as we progress through the modules in this course. Along the way you will be exposed to agile software development practices, numerous tools that software engineers are expected to know how to use, and a modern web application development framework.This course is also available in Spanish. To join the Spanish version, visit this page: https://www.coursera.org/learn/apliweb.

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Instructor Details

Greg Heileman and Manel MartAnez-RamAn

4.6 Rating
43 Reviews

Gregory (Greg) L. Heileman received the BA degree from Wake Forest University in 1982, the MS degree in medical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1986, and the PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 1989. In 1990 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, NM. He received the UNM School of Engineering's Teaching Excellence award in 1995, the ECE department Distinguished Teacher Award in 2000. He held UNM ECE's Gardner Zemke Professorship from 2005-08. He was the recipient of UNM ECE's Lawton-Ellis Award for combined excellence in teaching, research, and student/community involvement in 2001 and again in 2009. In 2009 he was also awarded the IEEE Albuquerque Section Outstanding Educator Award.

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By Kaustuv M on 9-Apr-19

Its a nice course and can be more perfect if it is provided with sites where I can explore on this topic more easily. Except this this gives a perfect basic knowledge to go round with it. I like to see another course which will be a advance one of this course. Thanking courser and university faculty for this wonderful course.

By Suryansh V on 13-Nov-18

EDUCATIONAL

By Christopher P K on 2-Oct-18

Lot's of great information on how web applications work and best practices. Well worth the time!

By Ajith on 10-Sep-18

Excellent course! Everything including the structure, the content, the presentation and the delivery of the course is of top quality. It is a pleasure to learn the basics of web application development using Ruby on Rails from Prof. Heileman. His teaching style is so good that learning becomes as easy as watching a movie, even for a complete beginner. I take this opportunity to thank him and his team for making this wonderful asset available to everyone and wish him good luck in all future endeavors.

By VL on 22-Aug-18

Uber easy to follow,understand, and packed knowledge!!

By Kshitij C on 12-Jun-18

good one

By Jay E on 7-Apr-18

The wisdom of the UX is forever relevant

By Sye on 13-Dec-17

I enjoyed it some detail with how to change the schema, view and controllers would have helped and for it to be a little more challenging. Otherwise it was an amazing course and really helped me understand web apps.

By Arek S on 9-Oct-17

Retrospectively, it was a very good course. No-nonsense, rather hard presentation, demanding which is understandable considering Rails encompass database, Ruby, bunch of tools and technologies, but well organized and executed.

By Rahul S on 15-Sep-17