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Fundamentals of Website Development
CSCI E-12 Fundamentals of Website Development (21144)
Spring term
David P. Heitmeyer, AM, Senior Software Product Architect/Engineer, iCommons, Office of the CIO, Harvard University.
Class times: Wednesdays beginning Jan. 26, 5:30-7:30 pm. Optional sections to be arranged.
Course tuition: noncredit and graduate credit $1,975.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of website development. Students explore the prevailing vocabulary, tools, and standards used in the field and learn how the various facets—including XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, multimedia, scripting languages, HTTP, clients, servers, and databases—function together in today's web environment. The course provides a solid web development foundation, focusing on content and client-side (browser) components (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, multimedia), with an overview of the server-side technologies. In addition, software and services that are easily incorporated into a website (for example, maps, checkout, blogs, content management) are surveyed and discussed. Students produce an interactive website on the topic of their choice for the final project and leave the course prepared for more advanced and focused web development studies. Prerequisites: CSCI E-1, or the equivalent experience. (4 credits)
