Students also learn how to administer, implement, and support a networking operating system in both a standard and enterprise environment. This module also includes a course that teaches students the architecture and hardware components of the microcomputer along with fundamental microcomputer operating system concepts. Applications are coded in Visual Basic and Java. Students learn how to integrate spreadsheets, databases, and web page applets into their desktop and server-based applications. This module builds on both the Networking and Application Development modules.
Students learn about the major services provide by a web site as well as how to create a site.
This includes setting up and securing a web server, and setting up ftp, Gopher, and WWW services. Students learn HTML and a web authoring software package. Further students revisit Java Applets and learn JavaScript, Perl, and VBScript. These programming languages are used to build interactive web pages. Emphasis is placed on database connectivity and multimedia.