Building on the concepts from Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, this course introduces techniques that lend themselves to the creation of sophisticated applications. The skills learned in this course can be applied to such diverse system capabilities as e-commerce, database manipulation, and network connectivity. Graphical user interface design and construction will also be covered in detail.

This course introduces students to the key concepts and principles that are applicable to a variety of mainframe operating systems. Mainframe operating systems will be discussed in relationship to specific hardware architectures and applications. In the lab, user interfaces, tools and utilities, application development, and the runtime environment will be explored. The emphasis of this course is to develop an understanding of the complex relationships required in a mainframe operating system to support user processes. The impact of the use of mainframe systems in reducing power consumption in data centers will also be discussed.

In this course, students will learn to program using an object oriented programming language. It is assumed students have already learned to design and outline the logic and structure of a program. Upon that foundation, this course will build skills in creating application programs that use object oriented programming concepts, API classes, and user-defined classes. Throughout the course, proper program documentation using class diagrams and comments will be stressed. Unit tests will be used to verify correctness and ensure program quality.

This web programming course is designed to provide the student with foundational web programming knowledge and skills for application development on the Internet. The student will learn about the Web as a development platform through the use of popular representative languages (such as PHP). The student will learn to plan, design, construct, and integrate basic server-side components of modern web applications including databases and scripts.

This course introduces programming techniques supported by a visual rapid application development environment (such as Visual Basic) including forms, controls, user-defined classes and objects. The packages provided by the platform that support visual programming, data files and Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) are studied. The skills learned in this course can be applied to such diverse system capabilities as e-commerce and database manipulation.

This course covers HTML, client-side scripting and design issues for the World Wide Web. Students will learn how to use HTML source tags, build websites, manage a website’s directories, and publish a website. The creation of web pages that conform to web standards and that use cascading style sheets for presentation will be emphasized. Students will work in groups to build mock commercial, institutional, government or educational websites. More advanced topics, such as bandwidth, aesthetics, human- interface and future developments will also be covered.