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BA 4760 - e-Business Technologies

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
Today’s businesses are global in nature. An Internet presence is essential to the marketing and sales efforts of any organization. Network technologies allow virtual storefronts to compete with brick-and-mortar (traditional) sales vendors. This course examines what it takes to produce a “web presence” using a number of tools and technologies (LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP). It emphasizes that the business model, expressed as use-case requirements, has to be satisfactorily completed prior to embarking on a development project. An overview of e-business technologies will be covered, along with the building of an e-business site. (prereq: BA 2710 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Demonstrate the ability to design, develop and implement a functional website running on the student’s assigned laptop computer
  • Master the use of development tools necessary to host a website on a typical server-side computer architecture including:  an HTTP-based web server (Apache), an SQL-based database server (MySQL), a dynamic language for scripting web applications (PHP) and a web content management framework (WordPress)
  • Demonstrate proficiency in using standard programming languages for web application development such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and SQL
Prerequisites by Topic
  • None
Course Topics
  • Overview of course and brief summary of computer software used in the course
  •  Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
  • Cascaded Style Sheets (CSS)
  • Client-side programming with JavaScript
  • JavaScript functions and array processing
  • JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and the Document Object Model (DOM)
  • Event-based programming in JavaScript
  • Server-side programming with PHP
  • PHP programming on the Apache server-side
  • Database access using SQL and PHP
Coordinator
Katie McCarthy


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