EECS 485

EECS 485: Web Systems

The University of Michigan, Fall 2020

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.

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This Week

Dynamic pages

Projects: P2, P3, P5

Schedule

Day	Lecture	Lab	Deadline
Week 1 Aug 31 - Sep 5	L01 Introduction L01 L01.01 L01.02 L01.03 L01.04 L02 Static Pages L02 L02.01 L02.02 L02.03 L02.04	Lab01 Project 1 Setup	Lab 1 Quiz due Sun 8pm ET
Week 2 Sep 7 - 11	L03 Server-side Dynamic Pages L03 L03.01 L03.02 L03.03 L03.04 CLI Tangent L04 Sessions L04 L04.01 L04.02 L04.03 L04.04 CLI Tangent	Lab02 Static Pages Tools and AWS	Lab 2 Quiz due Sun 8pm ET
Week 3 Sep 14 - 18	L05 Encryption L05 L05.01 L05.02 L05.03 L05.04 L05.05 L06 Web Security L06 L06.01 L06.02 L06.03	Lab03 Project 2 Setup	Project 1 due Wed 8pm ET Lab 3 Quiz due Sun 8pm ET
Week 4 Sep 21 - 25	L07 REST APIs L07 L07.01 L07.02 L07.03 L07.04 L07.05 L07.06 L08 Client-side Dynamic Pages L08 L08.01 L08.02 L08.03 L08.04 L08.05	Lab04 Server-side Dynamic Pages Tools	Lab 4 Quiz due Sun 8pm ET
Week 5 Sep 28 - Oct 2	L09 Client-side Applications L09 L09.01 L09.02 L09.03 L09.04 L09.05 L09.06 L10 Asynchronous Programming L10 L10.01 L10.02 L10.03 L10.04 L10.05 L10.06	Lab05 Project 3 Setup	Project 2 due Wed 8pm ET Lab 5 Quiz due Sun 8pm ET
Week 6 Oct 5 - 9	L11 Networking L11 L11.01 L11.02 Kim Dotcom Tangent L11.03 L11.04 L11.05 L12 Google File System L12 L12.01 L12.02 L12.03 L12.04 CLI Tangent	Lab06 Client-side Dynamic Pages Tools	Lab 6 Quiz due Sun 8pm ET
Week 7 Oct 12 - 16	L13 Map Reduce L13 L13.01 L13.02 L13.03 Chickens! L14 OS and Parallelism L14 L14.01 L14.02 L14.03 L14.04 CLI Tangent	Lab07 Scaling a Database with PaaS	Project 3 due Wed 8pm ET
Week 8 Oct 19 - 23	No class	No lab	Midterm Wed Oct 21 7pm ET Lab 7 Quiz due Sun 8pm ET
Week 9 Oct 26 - 30	L15 Information Retrieval 1 L15 L15.01 L15.02 L15.03 L15.04 Chickens 1 L16 Information Retrieval 2 L16 L16.01 L16.02 L16.03 L16.04 Chickens 2	Lab08 Project 4 Setup	Lab 8 Quiz due Sun 8pm ET
Week 10 Nov 2 - 6	L17 Information Retrieval 3 L18 Scaling Static Pages	Lab09 Scaling static files and media uploads with PaaS	Lab 9 due Sun 8pm ET
Week 11 Nov 9 - 13	L19 Scaling Dynamic Pages L20 Scaling Storage	Lab10 Project 5 Setup	Project 4 due Wed 8pm ET Lab 10 due Sun 8pm ET
Week 12 Nov 16 - 20	L21 Recommender Systems L22 Ads and Auctions	Lab11 Scaling Server-side Dynamic Pages with PaaS 1	Lab 11 due Sun 8pm ET
	No class - Thanksgiving Recess	No lab
Week 13 Nov 30 - Dec 4	L23 Blockchain L24 Dark Web	Lab12 Scaling Server-side Dynamic Pages with PaaS 2	Project 5 due Wed 8pm ET Lab 12 due Sun 8pm ET
Week 14 Dec 7 - 11	No class Final Exam	No lab	Final Exam Thu Dec 10 7pm ET

Day

Lecture

Lab

Deadline

Week 1
Aug 31 - Sep 5

L01 Introduction
L01 L01.01 L01.02 L01.03 L01.04

L02 Static Pages
L02 L02.01 L02.02 L02.03 L02.04

Lab01 Project 1 Setup

Lab 1 Quiz due
Sun 8pm ET

Week 2
Sep 7 - 11

L03 Server-side Dynamic Pages
L03 L03.01 L03.02 L03.03 L03.04 CLI Tangent

L04 Sessions
L04 L04.01 L04.02 L04.03 L04.04 CLI Tangent