Adaptive Web Design (MME8120)
is an optional master-level course that focuses on creating accessible websites that adapt to various devices and screen sizes. The course highlights the importance of content, considering both structural design and the overall message conveyed to users.
Course details
| Section | syllabus | language | MS Teams code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Databases (ro) | BD: MME8120 | English | by0u767 |
| Advanced Informatics Systems (de & en) | SIA: MME8120 |
Previous generations & projects
| Acad. year | # students | BD | SDI | IS | SIA | ICA | MA | DS | HPC | ERASMUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-2026 | 62 | 33 | 1 | 16 | 12 | |||||
| 2024-2025 | 81 | 26 | 33 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||
| 2023-2024 | 62 | 13 | 3 | 23 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 2022-2023 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 18 | 2 | 1 | |||
| 2021-2022 | 65 | 16 | 17 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |||
| 2020-2021 | 21 | 11 | 2 | 8 | ||||||
| 2019-2020 | 25 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 2017-2018 (II) | 65 | 28 | 27 | |||||||
| 2017-2018 (I) | 100 | 45 | 31 | 24 | ||||||
| 2016-2017 | 51 | 20 | 31 |
Invited speakers
Dr. Ioan-Gabriel Mircea, Lecturer, shared his perspective on design, tracing its origins from the birth of the universe to modern times.
His narrative wove together insights from astronomy, philosophy, physics, mathematics, biology, computer science, cinematography, religion, and art, highlighting recurring design patterns.
The first lecture explored the emergence of life on Earth, while the second brought the story into the present. Below are the whiteboard sketches from both sessions.
Content of the talks
- front-end reactive programming: reactive (Vue, React), web-components (Stencil)
- state management; communication between cousins (event bubbling, "channels"); redux (vuex); tight coupling
- descriptiv; pushing the effects out of the system; Falcor; Om Next (cljs); Elm; mentioning Purescript
- functional programming in general if there is time
- GraphQL si Apollo, two widely used JS tools
Talks given by ...
Vasile Adrian Roșian
Adrian has 12 years of programming experience out of which 10 professional (8 years as a freelancer, 2 with his own company), 4 years of functional programming. He designed and executed systems in the banking industry, booking travel for aviation and hotels, payments, e-commerce, end-to-end encrypted communications, chat systems. He has been a member of implementation teams for remote education systems, insurance ETL, speech recognition, document classification, blockchain and e-wallets, PSPs. Worked with python, php, clojure, java, go, haskell, elm, javascript, octave, swift, erlang, purescript, c, c ++, with databases in mysql, postgresql, sqlite, mongo, couchdb, h2 and framework the languages related to each language.
Claudiu Ceia
Claudiu is a self-taught programmer who has worked 4 years at Facebook, in Ireland and Silicon Valley. He is an amateur security tester (participates in CTF competitions).
He also worked on Facebook's Php compiler, Hack, the former Hip-Hop, so he has back-end and compiler experience.
History
This course was originally introduced as Web Design and Optimization (MLE5038) for undergraduate students in the 2012-2013 academic year and ran for three years.
Renamed Adaptive Web Design (MME8120) and redesigned for master’s students, it has been offered continuously since its launch in 2016-2017.
| year, sem | language) code: Name | activity | course held by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-2025, 3 | MME8120: Adaptive Web Design* | C S | Sanda-Maria Avram |
| 2023-2024, 3 | MME8120: Adaptive Web Design* | C S | Sanda-Maria Avram |
| 2022-2023, 3 | MME8120: Adaptive Web Design* | C S | Sanda-Maria Avram |
| 2021-2022, 3 | MME8120: Adaptive Web Design* | C S | Sanda-Maria Avram |
| 2020-2021, 3 | MME8120: Adaptive Web Design* | C S | Sanda-Maria Avram |
| 2019-2020, 3 | MME8120: Adaptive Web Design* | C S | Sanda-Maria Avram |
| 2017-2018, 2 | MME8120: Adaptive Web Design* | C S | Sanda-Maria Avram |
| 2016-2017, 4 | MME8120: Adaptive Web Design* | C S | Sanda-Maria Avram |
| 2014-2015, 6 | MLE5038: Web Design and Optimization* | L C | Sanda-Maria Avram |
| 2013-2014, 6 | MIC0017: Web Design and Optimization* | L C | Sanda-Maria Avram |
| 2012-2013, 6 | MIC0017: Web Design and Optimization* | L C | Sanda-Maria Avram |