Advanced Web Development

Overview

This unit develops students’ knowledge and practical skills in contemporary web application development. Students design and build interactive web-based systems using modern client-side and server-side development approaches, data persistence technologies, and object-oriented software design practices. The unit emphasises ethical and culturally responsible digital innovation, including the application of Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Indigenous Data Governance principles when designing, managing, and deploying data-driven web solutions.

Unit learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:

1. Design and develop interactive web applications using contemporary server-side development approaches in response to stakeholder requirements.
2. Analyse and resolve defects in interactive web applications using systematic debugging and testing techniques.
3. Implement data management solutions for web applications that support data integrity, security, privacy, and Indigenous data sovereignty requirements.
4. Apply object-oriented design principles and software design patterns to develop maintainable and extensible web applications.

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Content

• Contemporary web application architectures, including client–server interaction, request/response processing, state management, and integration of server-side and client-side components.
• Server-side web programming, including data handling, control structures, functions, modular and object-oriented programming, file handling, and session management.
• Interactive web application development, including user interaction, data validation, persistence, querying, update operations, and transaction management.
• Debugging, testing, and application quality assurance, including error handling, logging, troubleshooting, and systematic testing techniques.
• Secure web application development, including authentication, authorisation, input validation, and protection of sensitive information.
• Software design and architecture, including design patterns, architectural patterns, maintainability, extensibility, reuse, and separation of concerns.
• Professional web development practices, including code organisation, documentation, version control, and collaborative development workflows.
• Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance, including Australian and international contexts, Indigenous Data Governance frameworks, community-controlled data practices, and the CARE Principles.
• Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP), including data ownership, custodianship, consent, community authority, and the relationship between Indigenous Data Sovereignty and open data initiatives.
• Ethical and secure management of Indigenous data, including culturally appropriate collection, storage, sharing, use, risk assessment, and governance of Indigenous digital platforms.

Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Technical literacy