Colgate University Computer Science Department

This course addresses theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects of creating distributed web applications. It introduces students to meta-languages, such as XML and related technologies, and in the process builds on their theoretical background in formal languages and grammars, parsing, and interpretation. It also builds on and further develops the background in software engineering that students acquire in COSC 303. The emphasis is on distributed systems consisting of components interacting over standard interfaces, frequently using XML as a standard format for data interchange and presentation. The course includes a group project. The required credit-bearing laboratory COSC 455L must be taken concurrently with COSC 455.

Prerequisites: COSC 303 and 304 (the latter may be concurrent), or permission of instructor.

COSC Course Offerings for Spring 2008