Advanced Web Applications – AWEB

Syllabus

HTML/CSS/PHP (quick review), XML/TDT/JSON Languages ​​(Structured Data Interchange), XML/JSON Production and Consumption, Maps and the Web (Google/Open Maps API), REST APIs and good practices in their design, Web Services, PHP frameworks – Case Study, AJAX calls, Multi-Criteria Search, Semester Project (Rest API with Front End App), CSS Flexbox & Grid, Modern Web Content Management Systems (project in WordPress), Website Performance Optimization, SEO and other promotion techniques, e-Shop Success Factors, Recommendation Systems on the World Wide Web with both conventional and Machine Learning techniques. Additional Content: Open and Linked Data (what it is, who produces it, what is its usefulness, international and domestic trends), Data Extraction from the World Wide Web, Web Mining.

Recommended Bibliography

• Randy Connolly, Richardo Hoar. “Προγραμματισμός για το Web“, 3η Έκδοση, Μ. Γκιούρδας, 2022
• HTML5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, W3C Recommendation, http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
• A Complete Guide to Flexbox: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
• A Complete Guide to Grid: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
• Google Maps JavaScript API: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial
• JSON: https://www.json.org/
• Slim micro-framework: https://www.slimframework.com/
• Bing Liu, “Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents, and Usage Data. 2nd Edition“, Springer, 2011
  (access only to users who connect via the Academic Network (via the University’s VPN))
• D. Wood, M. Zaidman, L. Ruth and M. Hausenblas, “Linked Data”, Manning Publications, 2014
• Bob Du Charme, “Learning SPARQL, 2nd edition”, O’Reilly Media, 2013