What you'll learn
- A comprehensive overview of website development
- HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, multimedia, scripting languages, HTTP, clients, servers, and databases
- The prevailing vocabulary, tools, and standards used
- A solid web development foundation
Course description
This course provides a comprehensive overview of website development. Students explore the prevailing vocabulary, tools, and standards used in the field and learn how the various facets—including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, multimedia, scripting languages, HTTP, clients, servers, and databases—function together in today's web environment. The course provides a solid web development foundation, focusing on content and client-side (browser) components (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, multimedia), with an overview of the server-side technologies. In addition, software and services that are easily incorporated into a website (for example, maps, checkout, blogs, content management) are surveyed and discussed.
Students produce an interactive website on the topic of their choice for the final project and leave the course prepared for more advanced and focused web development studies.
Instructor
Associated Schools
Harvard Division of Continuing Education
Harvard Extension School
You may also like
Learn about the development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as...Free*12 weeks longAvailable now- This course picks up where CS50 leaves off, diving more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python,...Free*12 weeks longAvailable now
- An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.Free*11 weeks longAvailable now
