Web Application Development
This an upper-level computer science course where students will learn the fundamentals of implementing web applications that are functional, accessible, extensible and mobile-friendly. Students will learn how to use
- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) to build web applications.
- HTML5 to create semantic structure.
- CSS3 to separate structure and appearance.
- JavaScript and jQuery to implement interactive content.
- AJAX and JSON to fetch information dynamically from a web server.
- PHP to connect to a database and create web pages from dynamic content.
- MySQL to create databases for supporting web applications.
Student are required to...
- complete reading assignments and online quizzes to prepare for lecture and labs.
- meet for lecture two hours per week where the instructor will describe concepts and examples that are not easily understood from the reading alone.
- meet for lab two hours per week to learn skills and complete activities based on the concepts covered in lecture.
- complete 3-4 major projects based on the skills learned in lab.
- complete a mid-term exam and a comprehensive final exam to demonstrate expert subject knowledge.
About the instructor
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Dr. Eric Breimer
...has been designing web sites for 17 years and has taught programming, web design, web application development, and management information systems courses at Siena since 2002.