Schedule for Introduction to Information Technologies

Online - Summer 2024

Week	Topic	Due
Week 1 5/28-6/2	Introduction: Course Overview. Multimedia Basics: Working with Images, Audio and Video. Web Services: Screencasting, Surveys, Google Docs.	Discuss1
Week 2 6/3-9	Internet and the World Wide Web (1): HTML: Elements, Links, Images, Tables. Code Editor: Atom. File Transfer: FTP, Permissions. Internet and the World Wide Web (2): HTML: Positioning, Layout. Cascading Style Sheets (1) (CSS).	Ex1
Week 3 6/10-16	Cascading Style Sheets (2) (CSS). Basic Web Design Principles Browser Tools: Inspect HTML & CSS. Testing & Debugging Pages (Check Easy Things First). Web Services: Google Analytics. Responsive Layouts and Front-End Frameworks (1)(Bootstrap).	Ex2 Ex1 Rev Quiz1
Week 4 6/17-23	Responsive Layouts and Front-End Frameworks (2)(Bootstrap). Dynamic Web Programming Concepts (JavaScript). Basics of Programming (1) (JavaScript).	Ex3 Ex2 Rev Discuss2
Week 5 6/24-30	Basics of Programming (2) (JavaScript). Web Services: Web APIs. Browser Tools: Code Debugging Console. Basics of Programming (3) (JavaScript). Forms in HTML: Form Input Validation.	Ex3 Rev Quiz2
Week 6 7/1-7	Databases (1) (MySQL). Databases (2) (MySQL) and Server Side Scripting (1) (PHP). Databases (3) (MySQL) and Server Side Scripting (2) (PHP).	Ex4
Week 7 7/8-14	Recap Key Concepts for Web Programming (JavaScript), Databases (MySQL) and Server Side Scripting (PHP) Evaluating Software Systems and Tools (e.g., advantages and disadvantages of open source software tools). How 550 connects to other MI courses.	Ex5 Ex4 Rev Quiz3 Discuss3
Week 8 7/15-19	Working on Exercises and Project. Course Review and Term Projects.	Ex5 Rev TP