Greg Heileman
This is the first course in a Coursera Specialization track involving Web Application Architectures. This course will give you the basic background, terminology and fundamental concepts that you need to understand in order to build modern full stack web applications. A full stack web developer is familiar with each “layer” of the software technologies involved in a web application, including data modeling and database technologies, the web server environment and middleware components, network protocols, the user interface and basic visual design and user interaction concepts. In this course we will learn by doing. We will start by learning the major components of web application architectures, along with the fundamental design patterns and philosophies that are used to organize them. You will build and continually refine a fully functional full–stack web application as we progress through the modules in this course. Along the way you will be exposed to agile software development practices, numerous tools that software engineers are expected to know how to use, and a modern web application development framework. This course is also available in Spanish. To join the Spanish version, visit this page: https://www.coursera.org/learn/apliweb. As New Mexico’s flagship institution, UNM is a place where cutting–edge research and creative endeavors …
Instructor Details
Courses : 1
Specification: Web Application Development: Basic Concepts
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42 reviews for Web Application Development: Basic Concepts
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| Price | Free |
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| Duration | 24 hours |
| Year | 2016 |
| Language | English |
| Certificate | Yes |
| Quizzes | No |
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Tyler R –
I am impressed with not only the breadth, but also the depth of this course. It is a great introduction to Web Application Architecture, and sets the students up for a successful journey into Web Application Development.
Masanobu K –
Short course,but easy to grapse Rails about and procedure how to step by step.So before move on more detials in the future, this course satisfied me a lot.
Himanshu G –
till now … the videos are wonderful they are well designed.
Jason S –
Very little participation so very little help to be found on the forums, and from what I can tell, absolutely zero staff participation. After a couple weeks it’s looking like a waste of money.
shadrack o –
Love Prof Heileman
Joseph C –
This course has amazing breath. Most other specializations are organized chronologically (i.e. Course 1: Learn Ruby, Course 2: learn about databases with rails, Course 3: Learn about HTML,CSS, JS, etc.) But this introductory course describes everything that goes into making web applications, from front end to back end and compares ruby on rails to the other major frameworks. If you’re just trying to get started learning WebApps, as I was, this is very useful. The reason I couldn’t give it 5 stars was that there weren’t very useful assignments. You learn programming best from doing projects. In this course, there were a few quizes (which aren’t as nearly as useful as projects) and the only projects that existed were to simply follow the steps exactly as the professor did in his videos. I think that the makers of the course are 90% of the way to a top course, they just need to add in programming assignments for each week, where you don’t just follow the professor. I learned a lot from this course, but without getting the programming projects and exercises needed to reinforce the understanding, it may be hard to retain some of the knowledge.
Jonathan R –
I have enjoyed this course so far more than others like it that were similar. I look forward to finishing it.
Nir P –
good course give the big picture perspective. especially if you using ruby on rails!
Ludmila S –
Unfortunately, didn‘t enjoy this course at all. I have gone through 7 courses on Coursera and finished them with the biggest pleasure and great results. This time I had to leave the course before finishing because: 1st: content is organized awfully (for example “HTML overview” I knew all the material so I have an idea how it should look like, but lecturer started from the middle of all concepts, than moved to the beginning and together it looked like an unlinked content. I have simply lost a logic inside this. 2nd: Very difficult to get an idea: lecturer doesn‘t try to simplify the content, even opposite I had a feeling, that he makes easy things complicated for a reason. My husbend is a programmer with 10 years experience and when he watched the lecture he said, that even for him it was difficult to understand all the thing (things he actually knows). All these terms used, no relevant examples, too complex words and so on I lost concentration, I had to google a lot of unknown terms, I had to stop lecture every 30 seconds to reread or repeat the peace of lecture, because I could not understand it. As I mentioned, I know HTML well, but it was described so complex, that it was difficult to link my actual knowledge to lecturer words. 3rd: not international student friendly. Use of complex words in places where they were not necessary, complex structures, too fast language… I am pretty good in English, but had to stop video and to google translate some “smart” words lecturer used without particular need I don‘t mean definitions, just some epithets to make his speech “smarter”. I completed Coursera specialization by Michigan University and it was completely easy with plain text, short sentences, so well made for international student. 4th: this is boring. I am sorry, but this is true. I am interested in all these questions, but for some reasons I lose my attention every time. Maybe the reason is in all points I have just mentioned, but I didn‘t enjoy this course at all and it was the first time I didn‘t enjoy something connected with web app development. Please, don‘t be mad at me lecturer is a very charming and charismatic person, but I simply don‘t like how the material is presented. 5th: I have a feeling like all slides are taken from some scientific books and lecturer reads comments from some science articles, it is not like described with own words, simplified for better comprehension, cleared with own real life examples and in atmosphere of friendly conversation with some emotions and humor. Please, take my feedback just as my personal opinion and hope other students will enjoy it more.
Tekurala R –
Awesome guidance and lecture delivery by the World class professor .
Priya A –
Enjoying the course
Emilson A V –
Very, very interesting course. Clear lessons and nice new concepts.
Michael Y –
It was a decent but definitely surface level introduction to the concepts surrounding Web App development. A wealth of vocabulary is defined. There’s just too much material to cover in one class to understand any one concept deeply. However, a broad array of basic concepts are introduced and I benefited from taking the class.
Bolatan A I –
Very concise and well structured lecture. Also easy to grasp for beginner and pro Rails developer
Zachery S –
Very good introduction, with clear explanations and excellent examples! If you are new to web apps, this is a great choice to get started!
Francisco H C –
Great!!!!
Andrea R –
Great course, crystal clear and focused on the practice!
Sourav D –
Its a very good course for the beginners to understand basic work flow for web development.
Jose Q E –
Complete, exhaustive and nicely organized. Just wonderful.
Viswanathreddy S –
Great MOOC i ever saw, Thank you very much
dario –
i like this course!
l T –
Excellent introduction.
David M H –
Great introduction to web application development and Ruby on Rails. Although the course may be a little slow for hands on learners, it does a nice job covering relevant topics needed to understand all the moving parts associated with a web application.
Qianli Y –
Good introductions to all tiers in web application.
Frank G –
Very good, concise Introduction to Full Stack Webdevelopment. Explains a lot of those “in between” things that are important as a web developer, but that most other courses or books do not address, at least not in one coherent narrative, as is done here. Hope to see the follow up course(es?) soon!
Gervasio L –
Muy bueno!
Tomasz O –
Great course. I’m looking forward to continuation (‘Web Application Development’ specialization).
Abhinav S –
I am a Performance Testing engineer working with a IT giant. As a performance engineer, in the very start of every project I have to understand what is the architecture of the application which is being tested. I find it somehow difficult but this course gave me a very clear picture of web application. One of the best explanation of n Tier architecture available on the internet so far.
Akash C –
This course explains the concept of modern web application development. It briefs about web application technologies, MVC design pattern and Agile methodology. The course uses Ruby on Rails as the primary framework to describe web application concepts and methodologies.
Severine F –
A very good course, which gives a good introduction to web applications development. It provides all the pieces necessary to build a web application, and put them together in a understandable way. It also gives an overview about the various technologies used. However, the exercices are a bit too oriented. I would have appreciated to add additional features by myself, in order to have a better understanding of what we were doing.
Gabriele B –
complete and practical course, recommended
Kihyun R C –
Helpful lecture
Rahul S –
This was a great experience…!!!
Arek S –
Retrospectively, it was a very good course. No nonsense, rather hard presentation, demanding which is understandable considering Rails encompass database, Ruby, bunch of tools and technologies, but well organized and executed.
Sye –
I enjoyed it some detail with how to change the schema, view and controllers would have helped and for it to be a little more challenging. Otherwise it was an amazing course and really helped me understand web apps.
Jay E –
The wisdom of the UX is forever relevant
Kshitij C –
good one
VL –
Uber easy to follow,understand, and packed knowledge!!
Ajith –
Excellent course! Everything including the structure, the content, the presentation and the delivery of the course is of top quality. It is a pleasure to learn the basics of web application development using Ruby on Rails from Prof. Heileman. His teaching style is so good that learning becomes as easy as watching a movie, even for a complete beginner. I take this opportunity to thank him and his team for making this wonderful asset available to everyone and wish him good luck in all future endeavors.
Christopher P K –
Lot’s of great information on how web applications work and best practices. Well worth the time!
Suryansh V –
EDUCATIONAL
Kaustuv M –
Its a nice course and can be more perfect if it is provided with sites where I can explore on this topic more easily. Except this this gives a perfect basic knowledge to go round with it. I like to see another course which will be a advance one of this course. Thanking courser and university faculty for this wonderful course.