Web Development

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Illustrate the skills to design database schemas, and to work with SQL for data manipulation
• Demonstrate the ability to create dynamic and interactive web pages
• Apply the integration of database into web applications

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Server-side programming with PHP and the basics of SQL for database management
• The core concepts of web development, including the responsive web design and its applications
• Basic JavaScript programming for creating interactive web pages

1.Introduction to Web Development -History and evolution of the World Wide Web -The client-server model and its applications in web development. -HTML for structuring web content -HTML elements and text, HTML forms - HTML layouts, tables, iframes, and multimedia 2.Responsive Web Design -Introduction to responsive web design -CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for styling web pages. -CSS layout techniques: floats, positioning, and flexbox -Styling text, fonts, and colors using CSS and media queries -Introduction to Bootstrap framework 3.Interactive Web Development -Introduction to JavaScript programming concepts -Basics of JavaScript programming -Variables, data types, and operators in JavaScript -Control structures: conditionals and loops -Functions and their role in JavaScript 4.Server-side Web Applications -Introduction to server-side programming using PHP -Understanding PHP datatypes, variables, arrays, sessions, conditional statements and loops -Importance of databases in modern applications, types of databases -Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL) -SQL queries for creating tables and relationships -Basic SQL querying, data retrieval and displaying data on web pages -CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations using PHP and MySQL -SQL queries to filter, sort, and join data from multiple tables

Lectures, labs and guided self-study

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.