Course co-ordinator(s): Dr Theo Georgiou (Edinburgh), Marko Doko (Edinburgh), Talal Shaikh (Dubai), Md Azher Uddin (Dubai).
Aims:
- To develop knowledge and understanding of fundamental web design concepts and combine these with database structuring and querying techniques applying this knowledge by implementing an easy-to-use website.
Detailed Information
Course Description: Link to Official Course Descriptor.
Pre-requisites: none.
Location: ALP, Dubai, Edinburgh.
Semester: 2.
Syllabus:
- Introduction to web development.
- Information architecture.
- Web design and usability.
- Fundamentals of Mark-up and CSS.
- Introduction to database systems.
- Databases and Information Systems.
- Modelling of data/entity-relationship modelling.
- The relational data model.
- The Structured Query Language (SQL).
- Web-based database applications including the use of PHP.
SCQF Level: 7.
Credits: 15.