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Computer Information Technology
Term : Fall 2024
Catalog Year : 2024-2025

CIT 632 - Programming And Scripting Languages For Web Applications


Description: The focus of this course is Web programming from a scripting perspective where students are introduced to JavaScript as the interactive component of the Web. This course examines core programming concepts such as declarations, data types, assignment and mathematical operators, comparisions, decision techniques, and techniques for repetition. Also introduced are popups, functions, parameters, objects, properties, methods, events, output, HTML manipulation, strings, Ajax, frameworks, and comparisions to server-side scripting. Skills garnered in this course are important as they represent a baseline of required Web programming knowledge for careers in the mobile and Web application domain of the information technology field. This course builds on topics encountered in CIT 631 by affording students fundamental scripting skills and knowledge associated with mobile and Web application development. Students will engage in research and synthesize findings of peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles on scripting best practices and current trends as well as apply scripting techniques associated with mobile and Web application development. This course provides a foundation toward learning Android mobile application development in CIT 633 as the concepts in this course and CIT 632 are applicable to Android mobile application development. Letter grade only.

Units: 3

Prerequisite: Admission to a Personalized Learning program