Design and implementation of a new course: creating databases for web applications

  • Authors:
  • Jeanine Meyer;Michael Conry

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematics/Computer Science & New Media, Purchase College, Purchase, NY;Mathematics/Computer Science & New Media, Purchase College, Purchase, NY

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper describes a new course offered at our institution in which students are introduced to concepts and tools to build web applications involving databases. The intent of the course is to give students experience with specific server-side programming technologies as well as general planning methods such as entity-relationship, process and storyboard diagramming. The latter is intended to instill appreciation of systems design. The design and implementation of the course is based on professional, pedagogical and practical considerations, which will be discussed. These considerations led to the critical decision to use both Open Source and proprietary software. Other decisions included following the hybrid model of face-to-face with extensive on-line activity, not using a textbook, and involving the students in seminar-like presentations on demonstration projects.