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.

Syllabus

Final Information

Read over exam information

Take practice exams

Ask questions on piazza and during office hours

Exam Review Session - 12/6 3-5pm ET

Zoom Link

Information

Exam is 12/10 from 7-9pm EST on gradescope

Ask questions by either joining this zoom call or a private piazza post

Take your time and good luck!

This Week

L23 Blockchain

L23 L23.01 L23.02 L23.03 L23.04

L24 Dark Web

L24 L24.01 L24.02 L24.03 L24.04

Course Outro

Outro

Canvas sign in for videos

Lab 12

Lab 12 quiz

due Sun 8pm ET

Live Lab Sessions

Erin - Mon 4-5pm

Taylor - Fri 2:30-3:30pm

Finish Project 5

due 12/4 8pm ET

Final Exam Review Session - 12/6 3-5pm ET

Zoom Link

Information

Remote Survey 2 Results

1-1 Staff Help

Best for project code and bugs. Times on Google Calendar.

Office Hours Queue

1-1 with Professor

Best for grades, confidential

DeOrio - Self-schedule

Almomani - Self-schedule

Lecture Q&A

Best for lecture video questions

DeOrio Tue & Thu 11-12

DeOrio Tue & Thu 3-4:30

Almomani Tue & Thu 4:30-6

Almomani Tue & Thu 6-7:30

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Tutorials

w3Schools HTML Intro

w3schools CSS Intro

Official Python Tutorial

Install web dev tools on your operating system

git and GitLab

Web dev features in popular web browsers

python3 -m venv

pdb and pdb++

pytest

Command line automation

Tools and tips for working with groups virtually

w3Schools SQL Intro

Projects: P2, P3, P5

SQLite Tutorial

Projects: P2, P3, P5

Dynamic pages

Projects: P2, P3, P5

Projects: P2, P3

Projects: P3, P5

curl, HTTPie

Projects: P3, P5

Toolchain, demo

Projects: P3

Headless Chrome

Projects: P3

Projects: P4

Projects

Report a bug in a project or lab

Templated static site generator

Server-side dynamic pages

Client-side dynamic pages

Map reduce

Wikipedia search engine

Labs

Report a bug in a project or lab

Project 1 Setup

Static Pages Tools and AWS

Project 2 Setup

Server-side Dynamic Pages Tools

Project 3 Setup

Client-side Dynamic Pages Tools

Scaling a Database with PaaS

Project 4 Setup

Scaling static files and media uploads with PaaS

Scaling Server-side Dynamic Pages with PaaS 1

Scaling Server-side Dynamic Pages with PaaS 2

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 L17 L17.01 L17.02 L17.03 L17.04 Chickens 3 L18 Scaling Static Pages L18 L18.01 L18.02 L18.03 L18.04	Lab09 Scaling static files and media uploads with PaaS
Week 11 Nov 9 - 13	L19 Scaling Dynamic Pages L19 L19.01 L19.02 L19.03 L19.04 L20 Scaling Storage L20 L20.01 L20.02 L20.03 L20.04 L20.05 L20 CAP Theorem	Lab10 Project 5 Setup	Lab 9 Quiz due Sun 8pm ET
Week 12 Nov 16 - 20	L21 Recommender Systems L21 L21.01 L21.02 L21.03 CLI Tangent L22 Ads and Auctions L22 L22.01 L22.02 L22.03 L22.04	Lab11 Scaling Server-side Dynamic Pages with PaaS 1	Project 4 due Mon 8pm ET Lab 11 Quiz due Sun 8pm ET
	No class - Thanksgiving Recess	No lab
Week 13 Nov 30 - Dec 4	L23 Blockchain L23 L23.01 L23.02 L23.03 L23.04 L24 Dark Web L24 L24.01 L24.02 L24.03 L24.04	Lab12 Scaling Server-side Dynamic Pages with PaaS 2	Project 5 due Mon 8pm ET Lab 12 Quiz due Sun 8pm ET
Week 14 Dec 7 - 11	No class Final Exam	No lab	Final Exam Thu Dec 10 7pm ET