Teaching assistant for practical exercices for 1 year (2020). This course is followed by bachelor students in computer science (3rd year).

Objectives

At the end of the course, the student knows how to:

• Install, configure and maintain an information server.
• Analyze a concrete need for an information system and design its architecture based on existing models (N-tier, distributed, etc.).
• Describe, compare and use the usual technologies for presenting information on fixed and mobile media.
• Apply and choose the most relevant frameworks for the realization of an information portal.
• Design an XML database and access it with an appropriate query language.
• Assume a technical consulting function for a client in the field of information systems.
• Determine the stakes of new technologies, the importance of standardization in the process of data exchange and in the editorial chain of the company.

Content

• Information system (Definition, principles, models, installation and configuration, access protocols, comparison, etc.).
• Protocols and languages: HTTP, MIMETYPE, URI, XHTML, CSS.
• Advanced XML schema modeling techniques.
• Client/server architectures: 2-tier, 3-tier, n-tier and SOA (Services Oriented Architecture) architectures.
• Frameworks, application servers and development platforms.
• The .NET platform: introduction and operating principles.
• NET platform: ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
• The Java EE platform: introduction and operating principles.
• Java EE: servlets, JSP and JSF.
• Overview of the PhP and Ruby on Rails platforms.
• Web Services: principles and protocols (UDDI, WSDL, SOAP).
• XML databases.
• RIA (Rich Internet Application) - AJAX - declarative interfaces (XAML, XUL, etc.).
• Directories and meta-directories.

My role in this course

Teaching assistant for two pratical work sessions :

• Implementation a web architecture using two diffeent approaches : 3-tier vs. micro-services
  • Technologies used : npm and NodeJS for the back-end and HTML/CSS for the front-end
  • Students had to highlight pros and cons of both approaches on several points :
    • Code update
    • Debugging
    • Performance (response tme of queries)
    • Cost of implementation and operation (i.e. deployment)
• Implementation a web architecture using the Spring MVC framework
  • Initiating a project (Spring Boot and Spring Initializr)
  • Setting up JavaServer Pages (JSP) views
  • Use of Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
  • Beans and scopes
  • Persistence with Java Persistence API (JPA) and Hibernate
  • Object Relational Mapping - Entities
  • Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL)

Videos were recorded and uploaded on a private playlist on YouTube for these two pratical work sessions.