Type of Action
 

	Course Deletion		Requisite Change
X	Course Revision		Repeatability Change
X	Description Change		Diversity Option
X	Title Change		General Education Option
	Number Change		area:
	Contact Hour Change		Computer Requirement
	Credit Change		Writing Requirement
	Add Cross-listing		Other

 

Effective Term: Spring 2002
New/Current Course Number: 950-325		Crosslist Number: - /
Old Course Number: ________-______/_______

New/Current Course Title:	Web Development 1
Old Course Title:	Client/Server – Local Area
15 Character Abbreviation:	WEB DEVELOP 1
25 Character Abbreviation:	WEB DEVELOPMENT 1
Sponsor(s):	George Sargent
Department(s):	MCS
College(s):	Business & Letters and Science
Other Programs Affected:

Check if course is required in:    X   Major/Emphasis (specify): MCS

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From:
This course is designed to give students familiarity with distributed computing in a local area environment. Students are to gain "hands-on" experience in simple network management. They also are to learn and use an event-driven, object-oriented programming language to exchange data with other applications in a local area networking environment.

To:
This course will give students familiarity with client/server computing in a two/three-tiered Internet environment. This includes the development of dynamic web pages to exchange data with relational database management systems using scripting technologies. Students will use an event-driven, object-oriented programming language to construct ActiveX components that connect with database servers. The course will also explore basic networking concepts.

From:
Client/Server – Local Area

To:
Web Development 1

To:
The student will learn basic Web development technologies to create web pages that are displayed in a browser, e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. These technologies focus on the development of HTML web pages and Active Server Pages to communicate from Web pages to relational database systems and the integration of the database data into the web page. More specifically the student will learn:

• HTML, dynamic HTML using JavaScript, and XML
• Basic two-tiered and three-tiered client/server applications.
• Database server functions, ODBC, stored-procedures and SQL
• Database access from web pages via Active Server Pages, ColdFusion, or Java Server Pages.
• Basic networking concepts: OSI model, network topologies, bandwidth, specifics of TCP/IP networking
• Visual Basic to create ActiveX controls that connect to server databases via ODBC.
• Explore platform issues: operating systems (NT & Unix), hardware, deployment.

Catalog Description

Wide-Area systems have undergone a fundamental revolution. Prior to about 1994-5, they were non-graphical, vendor specific environments that often used proprietary networking technologies. Thus, they had little overlap with the graphical, less proprietary world of local area network based computing. Thus, there were fundamentally important distinctions between local-area and wide-area systems.

Since the advent of the World Wide Web (WWW) and browsers that run on multiple kinds of desktop computers (i.e. platforms), and programming languages that are almost platform-independent, Wide-Area Networking has fundamentally changed.

The web’s support for multiple platforms, ease of deployment, large geographical span, fancy multimedia capabilities, all coupled with secure transmission over public networks, have brought new opportunities to businesses. Web development technologies have captured the hearts and efforts of Information Systems departments everywhere. Thus, the distinction between local-area and wide-area systems is rapidly disappearing.

Web technologies are still rapidly evolving. It is important to understand that the Information Systems profession has always changed, and will continue to change. Clearly we will never be able to cover the specifics of all the important software packages. Thus a primary objective of this course is not to provide technical training in specific software packages. It is rather to teach fundamental concepts that should generalize to other products you may encounter in the workplace.

When using a particular software product, the student are responsible to read manuals and on-line help, or whatever it takes, to dig out the specifics you need to know to do your project. You are largely on your own. The ability to cope satisfactorily in this environment is an important survival skill in our chosen industry.

Course Prerequisite

MCS 950-231 Data Structures

Course Organization

This course is run informally with as much student involvement as possible. Many of you have already had rich experiences that would be useful to share with the class. You are encouraged to read ahead, read outside, reflect on your experiences and add to the class as appropriate. You need not feel obligated to dominate the class.

Evaluation

Progress toward these objectives will be evaluated as follows:

Course Outline

Boumphrey book: XHTML

We will study: XHTML, (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), JavaScript, DOM (Document Object Model) and XML (Extensible Markup Language).
 

Mitchell book: ASP

We will study ASP (Active Server Pages), VBScript and database connectivity.
 

Networking Module