This course aims at providing students with the foundation and techniques required to create software solutions for problems related to distributed systems. Topics covered in this course include types of distributed systems, frameworks for developing web and mobile software, database connectivity, database servers, spatial database servers, server-side programming, transaction processing monitor (TPM), software for mobile devices, client-side scripting, creating connection-oriented servers (e.g., TCP) and connectionless-oriented servers (e.g., UDP servers), mobile web programming, web services, web and mobile standards, RESTful web services, geospatial web services, global navigation satellite systems, networks and cloud systems, pervasive systems e-governance, the performance of web services, security and quality