CSP 261 Web Programming / Server Side

This hands-on, server-side programming course is designed to give students experience creating interactive, data-driven Web applications. Students will learn the basics of programming in a server-side scripting language. They will learn to integrate scripts into HTML pages. User information will be stored on and retrieved from a Web server using server-side scripts. The scripts can be used to create Web applications that enable online registration, login verification, shopping carts, etc. Current open source technologies will be used. PHP will be the primary server-side scripting language; Structured Query Language (SQL) will be used for the creation, management and retrieval of large amounts of data; MySQL will be the relational database management system.