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Interactive Web Development
Active Server Pages (ASP)
With Microsoft's ASP technology,
you can create dynamic, interactive Web pages. Users can access your
database and display information from queries, such as items in stock from
your inventory. You can also create customized pages and responses
tailored to your users' needs.
We currently offer course series in ASP using VBScript as well ASP .NET using Visual Basic 2005.
PHP
PHP is an embedded scripting system that helps you create dynamic, data-driven Web sites. The growing popularity of PHP rests partly on its support for a variety of database management systems.
Our introductory PHP course requires programming experience as well as Advanced Applications of HTML, or equivalent experience. Experience with a server-side technology, such as ASP or ColdFusion, is also a plus. The Intermediate Applications of PHP course requires Introduction to PHP and Introduction to SQL, or equivalent experience.
JavaScript JavaScript is used primarily for creating interactive pages. For
example, a script can validate data a user types in a form, or display a
special message when a button is clicked. JavaScript is relatively easy to
learn and requires only experience with HTML and some basic programming
knowledge.
To increase the usefulness of your Web pages, you
may want to add such functions as form validation, interactivity, or data
verification. These special scripts or programs cannot be created in HTML,
but you can use Java applets or JavaScript to add these features.
Note: JavaScript and CGI scripts are both used on Web sites, but they operate differently. CGI scripts execute on the server and then send results back to the browser. With Javascript, the program downloads to the local machine and executes there, and the end-user has access to all the code.
AJAX
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is ideal for creating high-performance, extremely efficient, interactive Web sites, combining client-side JavaScript with the power of XML. Web pages are much more responsive, because not all data needs to be transferred between server and browser.
