After successful completion of the course, students are able to implement simple business applications in Ruby on Rails that use REST interfaces for data communication (read & write) as well as web-based user interfaces for state-of-the-art usability and accessibility.

The following topics are discussed in this course:

• Object-oriented programming with Ruby on Rails
• Description and implementation of business processes
• Benefit and usage of open data policies and REST interfaces
• Provision and operating of web-server environments

Lecture, participation in the TUWEL forum, implementation of a business application with defined requirements in small groups of students

Pedagogic concept

• Frame of knowledge transfer with lecture block at the beginning of the lecture
• Exploration of lecture contents in a lab project in groups of two students
• Application of state of the art visualization and seminar methods for enabling student participation during the lecture
• Application of an open forum for knowledge exchange over groups during the lab course

ECTS Breakdown

Description                       ECTS  Hours
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Preparation                       0.04    1.0
Lecture                           0.16    4.0
Preparation of the Group Project  0.04    1.0
Group Project Work                2.76   69.0
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Total                             3.00   75.0

Course participation, quality of project implementation, final meeting

• Good knowledge in software development with Java
• Fundamental object-relational database management knowledge
• Fundamental knowledge in the area of Linux operating