COMP9041-18S2

COMP9041 Software Construction 2018S2

ALL CODES SHOULD BE APPROPRIATELY REFERENCED, COPYING MAY RESULT IN PLAGIARISM

Lecturer: Andrew Taylor

Main content

1. Shell: Unix process, basic shell commands (cut, sort, sed, tr ...) and more in regex. Shell syntax (3 types of quotes, condition, loop, test...)

2. Perl: Perl syntax, special symbols and special variables, functions (subroutines) definition and calls, strings, arrays and hash arrays. Perl regex and file handling. Perl Modules and CPAN.

3. Git: Version control and git commands, merge conflict and branches.

4. Webserver: Perl TCP/IP socket programming, simple HTTP server. Perl multiprocessing and webCGI.

5. JavaScript: Node.js environment, Node modules. JavaScript syntax and ES6 syntax. Frontend DOM, query, promise and async functions, error/exception handling.

Assignments

1. Legit - Build a Git system by using Perl, having such functions implemented:

   • git init
   • git add
   • git commit [-a] [-m]
   • git log
   • git show
   • git rm [--force] [--cached]
   • git status
   • git branch [-d]
   • git checkout
   • git merge [-m]

   To run the code, simply type ./legit.pl for instructions.

2. InstaCram - Build frontend for a photo sharing website in pure Node.js, having such functions implemented:

   • User log in, sign out and register by using tokens
   • User post a photo
   • User like a photo
   • User leave comments of a photo
   • User delete or update a post of photo
   • User's home page
   • User search for another user
   • User follow/unfollow another user
   • Infinite Scrolls and live update

   To run the codes, please follow such steps:

   1. Open a terminal type cd Assignment02/Instacram/backend and pip3 install -r requirements.txt
   2. python3 run.py
   3. Open another terminal type cd Assignment02/Instacram/frontend and npm install
   4. npm start

Credits

All lecture/tutorial slides and materials come from the lecturer. Assignment 2 backend comes from Alex Hinds and Zain Afzal. Please ask them before referencing. I will take no responsibility for misuse.