COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Number: IST 237
Course Title: Intermediate
Website Design
Class Hours Lab
Hours Credit
Per Week: 3 Per Week: 0 Awarded: 3
Catalog Description:
This course is a study of server-side (CGI; dynamic HTML) and client-side (JavaScript) dynamic web design, including the incorporation of database content into web pages.
Entry-Level Skills:
Students should have a fundamental understanding of internet communications and database systems.
Pre-Requisites: CPT 234
Required Materials:
Text(s): Creating Web Pages with HTML and Dynamic HTML, Patrick Carey, Thompson Learning/Course Technology, 2003, ISBN 0-619-18719-0
Students will collect supplementary materials as required.
Course Competencies and Objectives:
Students who complete IST 237 should be able to:
1.
Use appropriate tools
to generate, convert and verify HTML code.
2.
Apply HTML tags to
produce an HTML template.
3.
Storyboard page link
hierarchies and produce functioning reference codes.
4.
Troubleshoot HTML code
for path and filename errors that cause missing links to graphics or HTML
files.
5.
Produce ordered and
unordered, nested and blocked lists using HTML tags.
6.
Control format,
including use of physical and logical styles.
7.
Incorporate
appropriately-sized image and multimedia files using source and alternative
text tags.
8.
Control screen layout
using table tags and frames.
9.
Design external style
sheets to increase continuity among related pages.
10. Code forms to handle and return user input via e-mail or to
process form data using Common Gateway Interface (CGI) procedures.
11. Use search scripts to produce searchable websites that
clearly present search results to users.
12. Identify limitations of the JavaScript language.
13. Recognize, interpret and create simple JavaScript code to
perform useful functions.
14. Use JavaScript to produce dynamic features (action, motion
or response) for a website.
15. Evaluate code developed by a page editor (such as
FrontPage) to determine the quality of the code produced.
Grade Calculation Method:
Final grades are calculated as follows:
|
Exams (5) |
80% |
|
Homework/Quizzes |
20% |
Additional
Information Pertaining to Grades:
Students
must earn a minimum grade of ‘C’ in all CPT/IST courses used to fulfill
graduation requirements of a Computer and Information Technology program.
The student should access the College's Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources procedure and note the consequences for non-compliance
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