A survey of HTML programming, including client- and server-side scripting. HTML topics include basic web page layout and design, graphics, tables, forms, style sheets, and the Document Object Model / DHTML. JavaScript programming is covered intensively, including scripting basics, dynamic HTML production, arrays, and validating user input. After these foundations, we move to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XML, XSLT, and ASP. This course is required for the Internet Developer Certificate and should be taken first.

This course takes up all aspects of Drupal Open Source development, starting with installation, configuration, and base features. Core functions and modules are addressed, including users, roles, permissions, content types, themes, and menus. Module development with PHP is the central topic of this class, including with the form API against MySQL. Students should be familiar with HTML and CSS and be ready to program in PHP. This course is a general elective for the Internet Developer Certificate.

This course is an introduction to the Java programming language from an object-oriented point of view. We start with Java basics: data types, class construction, control structures, method writing, and elementary event handling. Further topics include Java components and layout, mouse handling, graphics, string manipulation, remote data access, file I/O, network programming, and database work. Java 2 and Swing are covered extensively. We write device independent applications as well as Internet applets. This course is a general elective for the Internet Developer Certificate.

This course introduces XML from a programmer's standpoint, starting with basic XML structure and syntax, including well-formedness and validation. Ajax Javascript programming and the Document Object Model (DOM) are special themes, including against MySQL and server-side PHP scripts. Additional topics include Web Services, XSLT, RSS, and Google maps. This course is a general elective for the Internet Developer Certificate.

This course is an introduction to PHP and MySQL. PHP is an open source C-like language for server-side web page programming, and MySQL is a full-featured open source database. We develop the basics of PHP programming, including variables, control, functions, arrays, classes, and file I/O. Students develop a robust shopping cart application for an online bookstore, including initial database construction using web services, a web search engine, user authentication, payment handling through Paypal's sandbox, and transaction storage. This course is one of two satisfying the capstone requirement for the Internet Developer Certificate (the other is Java EE with Spring & Hibernate (152-198)).

This course takes up the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) in a professional setting, the premiere environment for writing Java web applications. Each student will install a Java EE development environment with free (or cheap) industry-standard tools, including Tomcat, MyEclipse, and MySQL. Basic topics include Java Server Pages (JSP), servlets, and JSTL. We introduce database access through JDBC, but emphasize Hibernate as an object oriented approach to database access in Java and take up the Spring Framework as an effective approach to Java web programming. Students must be conversant with basic Java. This course is one of two satisfying the capstone requirement for the Internet Developer Certificate (the other is PHP and MySQL Programming (152-196)).

This course introduces ActionScript programming in Adobe Flash. After a brief introduction to the drawing tools, we take up writing event handlers and drawing with ActionScript. All major programming constructs are considered, including variables, loops, functions, object-oriented concepts, and file I/O (including XML). Programmatic Flash animation is a continuing thread. Additional topics include Flash forms, games, and drag-and-drop techniques.

These courses are part of the Internet Developer Certificate. It is necessary to take four of them to receive a certificate. Qualified special students are welcome into Certificate classes, room permitting, although a certain number of seats are reserved for Certificate students.

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These are Associate Degree level courses meeting twice a week in the classroom, with associated lab periods for student convenience. People are welcome to do their projects away from school if they can access our servers and/or have the tools -- Sun's Java Development Kit (JDK) or PHP, for example. Many of these tools are free for anyone to download and use.

Not every course is offered every semester. Current plans are to alternate Drupal and PHP / MySQL (both of which are offered in Fall 2008) with Flash and Java EE, which will be offered the semester after that (Spring 2009).