Server-Side Web Programming

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to the server-side scripting language for use in the creation and maintenance of interactive web sites that access online databases. Students design, code, test, debug and navigate interactive web sites using server-side programming. Topics will include broad exposure to language-specific functions and processes, security and file uploads and writes, along with database functionality including reads, writes, selects (searches), inserts and updates. This technology is widely used within Internet applications including blogs, search engines, e-commerce shopping carts, discussion forums, content management systems and social networking platforms.