1. Define the notions of openness, freedom in computing
2. Explain the role of standards in open systems
3. Analyze existing computing systems with respect to openness
4. Apply standards in design and development of open computing systems
5. Compose existing open data sources and software components in the development of new computing systems

Lectures

Elements of e-Learning

Laboratory Exercises

1. Principles of open systems ; Key properties of open systems ; Legal aspects and business models ; Examples of open and closed systems .
2. Character and data type representations ; Open data fomats ; Data transformations .
3. Data transformations ; Metadata ; Open data sources .
4. Web programming languages (e.g., HTML5, Java Script, PHP, CSS); Web architectures and protocols; Port and socket; Socket application programming interface (API); Name and address.
5. HTTP, AJAX, and websocket protocol; User Datagram Protocol (UDP) server and client; Command line arguments parsing; Program testing; Application protocols based on UDP; Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) server and client; Concurrency; Application protocols based on TCP; Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP); Simple HTTP server; I/O multiplexing; Threading.
6. Web standards.
7. Web standards.
8. Midterm exam.
9. Web standards.
10. Web standards.
11. Web standards; REST architectural style; RESTful API design.
12. Distributed system architectures; Distributed system design tradeoffs; Processes and communication in distributed systems; Distributed messaging; Distributed system modelling: synchronous and asynchronous models; Process synchronisation: physical and logical time.
13. Programming middleware for distributed systems.
14. Programming middleware for distributed systems; Security and privacy in open systems .
15. Final exam.