Students learn how to format text, link pages, and create lists and tables to include images, sound, ActiveX controls and Java Applets. Students also learn master skills to create dynamic interactive Web sites that are crucial to business applications using predefined objects and functions. Instructors also teach students to develop their own objects based upon business rules. A real-world shopping cart written in JavaScript is introduced for discussion and analysis. In the lab students return to the Web site that they built in the previous module and add enhancements to validate data and to link to outside sites.
Students explore the principles of object- oriented programming, including classes and inheritance.
While the course focuses on the development of applets for distribution to the Web through client browsers, students also learn how to develop Java Windows- based applications. In the lab, students build an applet to display data based on a customer request. The module explores the ASP object model and how it interacts with HTML and JavaScript. Students learn to program using VB Script and to maintain state using sessions and cookies. A series of exercises and labs are used to reinforce concepts.