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11–12Software Engineering 11–12 Syllabus (2022)

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Year 12

Programming for the web
Data transmission using the web
  • Explore the applications of web programming

    Including:
    • interactive website/webpages
    • e-commerce
    • progressive web apps (PWAs)
  • Investigate and practise how Loading  is transferred on the internet

    Including:
    • data packets
    • internet protocol (IP) addresses, including IPv4
    • domain name systems (DNS)
  • Investigate and describe the function of web Loading  and their ports

    Including:
    • HTTP, HTTPS
    • TCP/IP
    • DNS
    • FTP, SFTP
    • SSL, TLS
    • SMTP, POP 3, IMAP
  • Explain the processes for securing the web

    Including:
    • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates
    • encryption algorithms
    • encryption keys
    • plain text and cipher text
    • authentication and authorisation
    • hash values
    • digital signatures
  • Investigate the effect of Loading  on web architecture

    Including:
    • data mining
    • metadata
    • streaming service management
Designing web applications
  • Investigate and explain the role of the World Wide Web Consortium (Loading ) in the development of applications for the web

    Including:
    • Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
    • internationalisation
    • web security
    • privacy
    • machine-readable data
  • Model elements that form a web development system

    Including:
    • client-side (front-end) web programming
    • server-side (back-end) web programming
    • interfacing with databases that are based on Structured Query Language (SQL) or non-SQL
  • Explore and explain the influence of a web browser on web development, including the use of developer (dev) tools

  • Investigate cascading style sheets (CSS) and its impact on the design of a web application

    Including:
    • consistency of appearance
    • flexibility with browsers or display devices
    • CSS maintenance tools
  • Investigate the reasons for version control and apply it when developing web application

  • Explore the types and significance of code libraries for front-end web development

    Including:
    • frameworks that control complex web applications
    • template engines
    • predesigned CSS classes
  • Explain the use and development of open-source software in relation to web development

  • Investigate methods to support and manage the load times of web pages/applications

  • Research, experiment with and Loading  the prevalence and use of web content management systems (CMS)

  • Assess the contribution of back-end web development to the success of a web application

  • Observe and describe the back-end process used to manage a web request

    Including:
    • role of webserver software
    • web framework
    • objects
    • libraries
    • databases
  • Develop a web application using an appropriate Loading  with shell scripts to make files and directories, and searching for text in a text file

  • Apply a web-based database and construct script that executes SQL

    Including:
    • selecting fields
    • incorporating ‘group by’
    • common SQL queries
    • constraints using WHERE keyword
    • table joins
  • Compare Loading  to SQL

  • Describe how collaborative work practices between front-end and back-end developers improve the development of a web solution

  • Design, develop and implement a progressive web app (PWA)

    Including:
    • the application of design and user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) principles of font, colour, audio, video and navigation
    • a UI that considers accessibility and inclusivity
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