Internship Projects

Background

This course is for second year GITC Web Development Students. The course couples internship projects with a practical curriculum on dynamic web page development

Prerequisites

Students should have the following prerequisite abilities, knowledge, and skills before enrolling in this course:

• Web page composition using basic HTML and a text editor.
• Understand HTML tags, attributes, and values.
• Java programming, including conditional and looping constructs.
• SQL statements: CREATE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE.
• Relational database concepts: rows, columns, relations.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of the course, students should be able to complete the following tasks:

• Convert a simple web page from HTML using attributes and values for formatting to CSS with no in-line formatting.
• Write a simple JavaScript program to compute values in a form or load a series of images.
• Develop an HTML form for collecting address information.
• Process a form and store the field values into a relational database table using SQL.
• Write a simple web page using PHP sessions.

Handouts and Resources

The following items were distributed in class as supplemental material:

Sample Code

• JavaScript Examples: Sample source code reviewed and studied in class.
• PHP Examples: PHP/MySql integration code examples. Study these to complete the homework assignments.

Documents and References

• Data Perspective of the Network: In-class handout describing the relation of a web client and server.
• PHP Language Notes: A brief but useful introduction to the PHP scripting language.
• Final Exam Study Guide: Covers all questions on the final, delivered three weeks before the exam in 2008.
• Web Archive: Complete archive of course notes and lab works for the 2009 course.

Homework

The following materials were distributed as homework assignments:

• Convert Me: the plain HTML to HTML with CSS conversion assignment.
• Patverner.sql: the sample table for collecting address information.
• Form Processing: Collect address book data using HTML forms and PHP.
• Database Storage: Extend the previous assignment to store collected data into a relational database management system.
• Session Management: complete the previous assignment using PHP session management.

Students taking the course in 2009 receive additional homework assignments. Those are in the web folder archive.