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ACIT 1620

Fundamental Web Technologies ACIT 1620

Computer Information Technology Course

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Registration is now open for the Spring/Summer 2026 term.

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Course Overview

This course introduces the fundamental principles, concepts, and techniques for understanding and developing modern web sites. Topics include: underlying infrastructure and technologies that make the web works; building the structure of webpages with HTML; styling text and content with CSS; dynamically updating the content and style of pages with client-side scripting techniques. This course is intended as the foundation for more advanced web courses.

Prerequisite(s)

No prerequisites are required for this course.

Credits

4.0

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Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Explain the underlying infrastructure of internet.
Describe client/server interactions and communications.
Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of how HTTP protocol works.
Explain anatomy of a URL and its relationship to the location of a resource.
Explain the processes involved in rendering websites in browsers.
Develop W3C compliant web pages by hand using HTML.
Customize layout of responsive web pages using CSS.
Use Document Object Model (DOM) tree structure to describe the relationship between HTML elements.
Utilize CSS selectors to access and interact with DOM elements.
Develop client-side scripting with JavaScript to handle propagating user events.
Diagnose errors with browser developer tools.
Use version control tool to track different versions of code.
Publish static web pages.

Effective as of Fall 2020

Related Programs

Fundamental Web Technologies (ACIT 1620) is offered as a part of the following programs:

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School of Computing and Academic Studies

Computer Information Technology
Diploma Full-time

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