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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 6.171 (Fall 2003) 
  • Course Title:
  • Software Engineering for Web Applications 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Dr. Philip Greenspun
    Prof. Harold Abelson 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 6.171 Software Engineering for Web Applications



    Fall 2003




    Course Highlights


    This course site features links to online textbooks for the course, as well as a detailed syllabus outlining the history and pedagogy of 6.171.


    Course Description


    6.171 is a course for students who already have some programming and software engineering experience. The goal is to give students some experience in dealing with those challenges that are unique to Internet applications, such as:
    • concurrency;
    • unpredictable load;
    • security risks;
    • opportunity for wide-area distributed computing;
    • creating a reliable and stateful user experience on top of unreliable connections and stateless protocols;
    • extreme requirements and absurd development schedules;
    • requirements that change mid-way through a project, sometimes because of experience gained from testing with users;
    • user demands for a multi-modal interface.


    Technical Requirements


    File decompression software, such as Winzip® or StuffIt®, is required to open the .tar files found on this course site. Any number of software tools can be used to import the .csv files found on this course site.


    *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.

     

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