| DIT 38018 | 36 |
Programming for web developers is a hands-on course where students will be introduced to the basics of syntax and variable usage of the scripting language, they will use for the server-side development of their application. Students will learn Object-Oriented Programming through connecting to the MySQL database to create truly dynamic, data-driven web applications. Students will also learn the correct way of programming for the web and introduced to the basics of web security (CSRF and XSS protection).
During this course, students are introduced to the concepts of functions, encryption, regular expressions, advanced string manipulation, as well as the principals of object orientation, and more advanced techniques of integrating with MySQL while securing the code base and MySQL against SQL injection attacks.
Prerequisites
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Develop syntactically correct Web pages
- Integrate the scripting language into existing HTML pages
- Use accepted and tested methodologies to secure Web pages and forms
- Develop a variety of reusable functions
- Understand and use the data objects
- Strengthen code and database interactions using prepared statements and bound parameter
- Create reusable classes and instantiate Objects
- Develop a website authentication system using the best practices of encryption with salt
- Validate user input using regular expressions and other advanced methods
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