Software Engineering for Internet Applications (The MIT Press) by Eve Astrid Andersson (PDF)

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A self-contained course on server-based Internet applications software that grew out of an MIT course.After completing this self-contained course on server-based Internet applications software, students who start with only the knowledge of how to write and debug a computer program will have learned how to build web-based applications on the scale of Amazon.com. Unlike the desktop applications that most students have already learned to build, server-based applications have multiple simultaneous users. This fact, coupled with the unreliability of networks, gives rise to the problems of concurrency and transactions, which students learn to manage by using the relational database system.After working their way to the end of the book, students will have the skills to take vague and ambitious specifications and turn them into a system design that can be built and launched in a few months. They will be able to test prototypes with end-users and refine the application design. They will understand how to meet the challenge of extreme business requirements with automatic code generation and the use of open-source toolkits where appropriate. Students will understand HTTP, HTML, SQL, mobile browsers, VoiceXML, data modeling, page flow and interaction design, server-side scripting, and usability analysis.The book, which originated as the text for an MIT course, is suitable for classroom use and will be a useful reference for software professionals developing multi-user Internet applications. It will also help managers evaluate such commercial software as Microsoft Sharepoint of Microsoft Content Management Server.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: Review Filled with practical advice for elegant and effective websites.―Edward Tufte, author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information About the Author Eve Andersson is Senior Vice President and Chair of the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Neumont University, Salt Lake City.Philip Greenspun, a software developer, author, teacher, pilot, and photographer, originated the Software Engineering for Internet Applications course at MIT. He is the author of Philip and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing.Andrew Grumet received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and builds Web applications as an independent software developer.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐It’s not easy to build a really good online community website. There are a lot of things to think about, and many of them have little or nothing to do with technical programming skills.Buy this book, read it, step through it, and learn from some of the best teachers on the subject. And then when you’ve learned what they have to say here, take your new-found skills and build your own online community site. Using the methods in this book, your web sites can be more useful, successful, and profitable.

⭐This book does not provide any new material about the title topic. I returned it

⭐To Philip and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing, I learn of this new chapter in Mr. Greenspun’s (et al) effort to encourage the Web to be all it can be. This volume is plainly a text book, designed as a practicum, and with its completion my understanding of how to achieve what’s possible now and conjure the future of the Web will be greatly furthered. I’m finding it inspirational in the process of designing; expand your dream’s horizons!

⭐If you’re new to building web applications and want a balanced perspective on the engineering challenges involved — from understanding user needs to data modelling to scaling gracefully — this book is a great place to start. It’s mostly language-agnostic, so it’ll be a good starting point for a few years but won’t update you on the latest technology. Nevertheless, I know very few web developers who wouldn’t learn something important from a careful reading of this book.Where this book really shines is as a bridge from the world of college Computer Science to the world of actually building applications people use. This transition encompasses understanding your users, making flexibile designs, considering security, aesthetics, and a host of other issues one does not actually learn in a normal college CS curriculum. Thanks to its project focus, this book (and the course curriculum it implies) seeds an awareness of these many issues that can later be developed through experience. Other “software engineering” books over-emphasize theories, but this one will actually press you to get stuff built.

⭐This is a terrific book on what it takes to make web applications really work (both for users and for the businesses that create them). Managers of web design projects should read this book for its eminently practical advice on documentation, workflow, and pitfalls to avoid. Highly recommended.

⭐waste of money.

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