Welcome to CSE 491 / spring 2012!

This is the course material for CSE 491, “Concepts in Database-Backed Web Development”, taught at MSU in spring 2012.

Instructor: C. Titus Brown, ctb@msu.edu.

TA: Qingpeng Zhang, qingpeng@msu.edu.

All materials on this site are available under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA), free for use & re-use with attribution.

Contents:

• In-class Links - April 26th, 2012
  • Jenkins
  • Selenium – automating in-browser testing
  • Cross-Browser Testing
• In-class Links - April 24th, 2012
  • ZeroMQ
  • screen
  • virtualenv
• In-class Links - April 19th, 2012
  • HTML5 links
  • Mashup links
  • Web scraping with BeautifulSoup
• In-class Links - April 17th, 2012
  • Introducing Django
  • Starting the tutorial
• Remaining two homeworks
• In-class Links - April 12th, 2012
  • JavaScript examples
  • JQuery examples
  • JQuery and AJAX
  • Debugging JavaScript
  • Security limitations
• In-class Links - April 10th, 2012
  • The next six classes
  • Sessions in meep
  • Quixote – it’s one way to do it
  • Quixote and Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) over HTTP
  • A simple XML-RPC server built on Quixote
• In-class Links - April 5th, 2012
  • Disks and Amazon AWS
  • Shutting down or rebooting your instance from the command line
  • Starting things on boot
  • Making new AMIs
• In-class Links - Mar 29th, 2012
  • Installing MySQL and the Python MySQL connector
  • Configuring MySQL server
  • Connecting to MySQL from Python
• Homework 9, due Mar 27th, 2012
• In-class Links - Mar 22th, 2012
  • Remaining course topics
  • A 30-second introduction to SQL and SQLite
• In-class Links - Mar 20th, 2012
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Specing stuff out
• In-class Links - Mar 15th, 2012
  • Network reads and protocols (see also conversation with Eric)
  • Serving files from meep
  • A really, really brief CSS intro
  • start_response functions and options for callables
• In-class Links - Mar 13th, 2012
  • Homework notes
  • ‘miniapp.py’ vs ‘serve2.py’
  • Blanket exception catching is bad
  • Mocks, stubs, and dependency injection
• In-class Links - Mar 1st, 2012
  • Dependency injection
• Homework 8, due Mar 20th, 2012
• In-class Links - Feb 28th, 2012
  • Non-blocking sockets
  • Multiprocessing functionality
  • How does POST differ from GET?
  • How does POST differ from GET (take 2)
  • Reading POST data
• Homework 7, due Feb 28th, 2012
• In-class Links - Feb 21th, 2012
• Homework 6, due Feb 21st, 2012
• In-class Links - Feb 16th, 2012
  • Install Jinja2 and nose
  • Running nose
  • Running twill scripts from within Python
  • Jinja2 templating
• In-class Links - Feb 9th, 2012
• Homework 5, due Feb 14th, 2012
• In-class Links - Feb 7th, 2012
• In-class Links - Feb 2nd, 2012
  • Using a proxy to spy on Web traffic
• In-class Links - Jan 31, 2012
• Homework 4, due Feb 7th, 2012
• In-class Links - Jan 26, 2012
  • In class project #1: trying out a unit test
  • In class project #2: write some twill tests
• Homework 3, due Jan 31st 2012
• In-class Links - Jan 24, 2012
  • In-class project #1 - understanding WSGI a bit more
  • In-class project #2 - resolving conflicts in git merges
  • In-class project #3 - running another project
• Homework 2, due Jan 24th 2012
• In-class Links - Jan 19, 2012
• Homework 1, due Jan 17th 2012
• In-class Links - Jan 12, 2012
• Class preparation - Jan 12, 2012
• In-class Links - Jan 10, 2012
• The syllabus
  • Basic details you care about

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page