6.171 | Fall 2003 | Undergraduate

Software Engineering for Web Applications

Course Description

6.171 is a course for students who already have some programming and software engineering experience. The goal is to give students some experience in dealing with those challenges that are unique to Internet applications, such as:

  • concurrency;
  • unpredictable load;
  • security risks;
  • opportunity for …

6.171 is a course for students who already have some programming and software engineering experience. The goal is to give students some experience in dealing with those challenges that are unique to Internet applications, such as:

  • concurrency;
  • unpredictable load;
  • security risks;
  • opportunity for wide-area distributed computing;
  • creating a reliable and stateful user experience on top of unreliable connections and stateless protocols;
  • extreme requirements and absurd development schedules;
  • requirements that change mid-way through a project, sometimes because of experience gained from testing with users;
  • user demands for a multi-modal interface.
Learning Resource Types
Online Textbook
Exams
Design Assignments
A photo of people and pigeons in the plaza.
A photo of Plaza de Bolivar in Bogota, Colombia found on MITUPV, a bilingual online community developed by 6.171 students Aimee Lee and Kathy Lee. (Image courtesy of Sandra Gaviria.)