Schedule for Introduction to Information Technologies

On-campus and Online

Week	Topic	Due
Week 1	Introduction: Course Overview. Multimedia Basics: Working with Images, Audio and Video. Web Services: Screencasting, Surveys, Google Docs.
Week 2	Internet and the World Wide Web (1): HTML: Elements, Links, Images, Tables. Code Editor: Atom. File Transfer: FTP, Permissions.	Discuss1
Week 3	Internet and the World Wide Web (2): HTML: Positioning, Layout. Cascading Style Sheets (1) (CSS).	Ex1
Week 4	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.
Week 5	Responsive Layouts and Front-End Frameworks (1)(Bootstrap).	Ex2
Week 6	Responsive Layouts and Front-End Frameworks (2)(Bootstrap).	Quiz1 Ex1 Rev
Week 7	Dynamic Web Programming Concepts (JavaScript). Basics of Programming (1) (JavaScript).	Ex3
Week 8	Basics of Programming (2) (JavaScript). Web Services: Web APIs. Browser Tools: Code Debugging Console.	Discuss2 Ex2 Rev
Week 9	Basics of Programming (3) (JavaScript). Forms in HTML: Form Input Validation.
Week 10	Databases (1) (MySQL).	Ex4 Quiz2 Ex3 Rev
Week 11	Databases (2) (MySQL) and Server Side Scripting (1) (PHP).
Week 12	Databases (3) (MySQL) and Server Side Scripting (2) (PHP).	Ex5
Week 13	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).	Discuss3 Ex4 Rev
Week 14	How 550 connects to other MI courses. Working on Exercises and Project.	Quiz3
Week 15	Course Review and Term Projects.	TP Ex5 Rev