EECS 485

EECS 485: Web Systems

The University of Michigan

Winter 2022

A holistic course of modern web systems and technologies, covering front end and back end. Build an Instagram clone in the first half of the semester, and a Google clone in the second.

Good luck finishing up project 1! Project 2 will be released this Monday (1/24). Take a look at this Piazza post for details about the P2 spec release party, meant to help you get an early start.

This Week

In-person Lecture

Tue, Thu 10:30 in 1670 Beyster

Tue, Thu 1:30 in 1013 DOW

Recordings will be available.

Supplemental Studio Recordings

Studio lecture recordings from W21 semester

Remote Office Hours

Mon, Wed 1:30-2:30pm (Zoom link)

In-person Lecture

Tue, Thu 4:30 in 1109 FXB

Tue, Thu 6:00 in 1109 FXB

Recordings will be available.

Remote Office Hours

Tue, Thu 7:30-8:30pm

E-mail for appointment

Due Sun January 23

Spec Tutorials

FAQ Autograder

Report a bug

Labs will begin the first day of class (January 5).

You may attend any lecture or lab you wish, regardless of the one you are registered for on Wolverine Access.

See calendar below

Files

In-person Office Hours

Mon and Thu, see calendar

Virtual Office Hours

Tue, Wed, and Fri, see calendar

All times are listed as Ann Arbor local time (ET)

Schedule

All times are listed as Ann Arbor local time (ET)

Day	Lecture	Lab	Deadline
Week 1 Jan 5 - 7	L01 Introduction	Project 1 Intro
Week 2 Jan 10 - 14	L02 Static Pages L03 Server-side Dynamic Pages	Static Pages and HTML
Week 3 Jan 17 - 21	L04 Sessions L05 Encryption	Python	Project 1 due Sun Jan 23 11:59pm Spec
Week 4 Jan 24 - 28	L06 Web Security L07 REST APIs	Project 2 Intro
Week 5 Jan 31 - Feb 4	L08 Client-side Dynamic Pages L09 Client-side Applications	Databases and Rest APIs	Project 2 due Sun Feb 6 11:59pm
Week 6 Feb 7 - 11	L10 Asynchronous Programming L11 MapReduce	Project 3 Intro and Asychronous Programming
Week 7 Feb 14 - 18	L12 Google File System L13 OS and Parallelism	React	Project 3 due Sun Feb 20 11:59pm
Week 8 Feb 21 - 25	No class - Midterm No class - Midterm	No lab	Midterm Tue Feb 22 7pm
Week 9 Feb 28 - Mar 4	No class - Spring Break No class - Spring Break	No lab
Week 10 Mar 7 - 11	L14 Networking L15 Text Analysis for Web Search	Project 4 Intro and MapReduce
Week 11 Mar 14 - 18	L16 Link Analysis for Web Search L17 Scaling Web Search	Threads and Sockets
Week 12 Mar 21 - 25	L18 Scaling Static Pages L19 Scaling Dynamic Pages	Multithreaded Debugging	Project 4 due Sun Mar 27 11:59pm
Week 13 Mar 28 - Apr 1	L20 Scaling Storage L21 Recommender Systems	Project 5 Intro and MapReduce Pipelines
Week 14 Apr 4 - 8	L22 Ads and Auctions L23 Blockchain	Text Analysis and Requests
Week 15 Apr 11 - 14	L24 Dark Web	TBD	Project 5 due Sun Apr 17 11:59pm
Final Exam			Final Fri Apr 22 8am

Day

Lecture

Lab

Deadline

Week 1
Jan 5 - 7

L01 Introduction

Project 1 Intro

Week 2
Jan 10 - 14

L02 Static Pages

L03 Server-side Dynamic Pages

Static Pages and HTML

Week 3
Jan 17 - 21