Professional Education Subject

Web Development

Courses In This Subject

• Accessibility: Making Your Web Site Usable for All (COMP 1204P)—

  Learn the value and purpose of accessible design for sites. Discover how sites can be accessible and remain attractive and usable. Know the legal and business reasons for creating accessible sites. Gain a full understanding of the most important standards and guidelines that determine accessibility.

• Advanced PHP: Constructing Dynamic Web Sites (COMP 1240P)—Advance your PHP programming skills including object-oriented programing, database access, sessions, and cookies.
• Ajax: Creating Interactive Web Applications (COMP 1260P)—With Google® setting the pace, Web developers have embraced Ajax as a means to provide new levels of interactivity to their pages.
• Beginning PHP: An Introduction to Programming (COMP 1200P)—Familiarize yourself with the capabilities of PHP in this introductory course. Learn how to use common built-in functions, understand basic data types and operations, and compose and execute simple programs in this hands-on course.
• Building Dynamic Web Pages using PHP (COMP 1270P)—

  This two day intensive course introduces the basics of writing dynamic PHP web pages using a combination of lectures and immediate hands-on labs. The course is taught from the ground up assuming only a basic knowledge of HTML and computer programming.

• Content Management Systems: Communicating Through the Web (COMP 1202P)—Gain a framework of how various content management systems function. Identify which type of CMS is appropriate for which type of Web site. Gain hands-on experience with several popular open-source CMS based products.
• Database Design Concepts: Generating Content for Your Web Site (COMP 1210P)—Gain the tool sets to construct a database that correctly models a business process through the use of entity-relationship diagrams. Learn how to make all data in a table dependent on the key (third normal form).
• Database Driven Web Applications Using PHP and MySQL (COMP 1276P)—

  In this four-day intensive course, you will learn how to implement database-driven dynamic web applications. The course uses a combination of instructor lectures, class participation and immediate hands-on labs on a real-world project with real-world tools.

• Designing Usable Interfaces (COMP 1133P)—Examine the ways that people of different skill levels use the Web. Be introduced to the sensory and cognitive impacts of Web design. Learn the fundamentals of designing a site’s layout, information architecture, and navigation systems. Learn the use of search engine optimization to improve usability and accessibility. Evaluate a site and provide a plan to improve its usability and accessibility by modifying the layout and or site structure.
• eCommerce: Introduction to the Internet Marketplace (COMP 1205P)—Gain an overview of the technologies and processes of adding e-commerce to a Web site. Discuss the technologies involved in connecting with customers, placing an order, taking payment and fulfilling the order.
• Evaluating Web Usability and Accessibility (COMP 1132P)—Get up-to-date tools and methods for testing Web usability and accessibility. Learn about the many different methods of usability testing and when to use each one. Learn to plan and conduct focused usability tests through hands on exercises. See usability testing software/hardware in action and learn to choose and apply the most appropriate tools to improve online resources.
• HTML and CSS: Creating & Styling Web Pages (COMP 1203P)—Gain practical, working knowledge of construction of HTML pages, using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for formatting. Through hands-on practice, learn to create and modify Web pages. Construct a simple Web page and deploy it on a Web server.
• Introduction to Web Usability and Accessibility (COMP 1131P)—Discover how people actually use the Web and how you can optimize your sites. Identify ways to capitalize on search engine optimization (SEO) and avoid critical usability mistakes, prioritize usability issues, and write content for the Web. Understand policies, standards and guidelines that apply to usability and accessibility, and learn how to develop compliant sites.
• JavaScript: Programming for Web Clients (COMP 1220P)—JavaScript has gained new life in recent years with the advent of Web sites based on Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). Gain the knowledge necessary to create simple browser-based JavaScript programs. Construct a dynamic Web page and deploy it on a Web server.
• Model-View-Controller: Understanding the MVC Design Pattern (COMP 1250P)—One of the popular program development paradigms is the use of Design Patterns, which represent the embodiment of best-practice programming. Investigate one of the most pervasive patterns for Web-programming: the Model-View-Controller pattern.
• Online Training and Education for the 21st Century: Universal Design (COMP 0904P)—See how Universal Design approaches can make course offerings accessible to everyone and more usable to all. Learn the ways in which common disabilities affect use of coursework. Plan for good course design and specific techniques for making online courses accessible, utilizing software commonly used for online courses, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel, and Adobe Acrobat. Explore the use of appropriate HTML.
• Relational Database Design and Implementation & SQL (COMP 1275P)—

  This two day intensive course will take students through all the phases involved in developing applications on relational databases. The course uses a combination of lectures and immediate hands-on labs on a real-world project.

• The WebMaster: Roles and Responsibilities (COMP 1206P)—Gain an overview of the responsibilities of a Web master, including administrative tasks like domain name registration and renewal, analytical tasks such as traffic monitoring, standards compliance and search engine optimization.
• Web 2.0 Technologies for a More Usable Web (COMP 1134P)—Discover the concepts of Web 2.0, which is as a method for improving usability and site goals, such as the number of visitors and sales a site may receive. Learn about the most important technologies behind Web 2.0 and how to use them to improve interactivity and appeal for sites. Identify site improvements using Web 2.0 applications. Use Web 2.0 tools to plan for implementation and gain experience.
• World Wide Web: A Technology Overview (COMP 1201P)—Gain a high-level overview of the technologies that underlie the World Wide Web and how they interrelate. Become more familiar with the fundamental technologies of modern computers and networks. Explore the relationship of programming languages and database to Web sites.
• XML: Exchanging Files Across Web Platforms and Applications (COMP 1230P)—Explain the roles and uses of XML. Identify correctly formed XML elements and files. Perform simple verifications of XML files against DTD. Identify tools used for XML Schema construction. Transform an XML file into HTML using XSLT transformation. Provide human-readable formatting of an XML file via CSS.