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International Fees

International fees are typically three times the amount of domestic fees. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.

Course details

​This course covers advanced geospatial programming technologies. Topics include accessing the latest cloud and on premises geospatial datastores, working with the latest geospatial APIs, and comparing application patterns, responsive and reactive frameworks. Students will create various UI-based applications for the web and web-mobile realms. ​

Prerequisite(s)

  • 50% in GIST 7010
  • Course registration is restricted to current students registered in a BCIT GIS program.

Credits

3.0

Domestic fees

$829.82

Course offerings

Spring/Summer 2024

Below is one offering of GIST 8010 for the Spring/Summer 2024 term.

CRN 55896

Duration

Fri Apr 05 - Fri Jun 21 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 55896
  • Domestic fees $829.82
    International fees are typically three times the amount of domestic fees.
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 05 - Jun 21 N/A N/A Online
Instructor

Rob Hewlett

Course outline

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Credits

3

Domestic fees

$829.82

Important information
  1. Internet delivery format.
  2. Departmental approval needed
  3. Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
  4. International fees are typically three times the amount of domestic fees. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
  5. Students must be accepted into the GIS program and completed the prerequisite prior to registration of this course. To receive approval, please email your BCIT Student ID to gis@bcit.ca. For more information about online courses at BCIT, please visit: www.bcit.ca/distance/foryou.shtml Students must check your my.bcit.ca e-mail account for start-up instructions sent upon registration of this course. To be successful in our online courses, plan to spend 4-6 hours per course each week on your studies, starting Week 1. Our courses are highly interactive with participation requirements weekly. Most of our online learning courses require a textbook. You can search for your course textbook at : www.bcitbookstore.ca/distance/ . If no textbook is listed, course material will be provided via e-mail. Students must submit email address when registering for start up instructions for this course. To be successful in our online courses, plan to spend 4-6 hours per course each week on your studies, starting Week 1. Our courses are paced and highly interactive with participation requirements weekly. Most of our online learning courses require a textbook. You can search for your course textbook at www.bcitbookstore.ca/distance/ - If no textbook is listed, course material will be provided via email.
Status

In Progress and Full

This course offering is in progress and full. Please check back next term or subscribe to receive email updates.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:

  • Create applications that display geospatial information.
  • Integrate geospatial APIs that demonstrate encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction, and serialization.
  • Implement structured error handling.
  • Incorporate event driven architectures in geospatial solutions.
  • Access and update geospatial datastores.
  • Compare application patterns such as: MVC, MVP and MVVM.
  • Create applications that integrate the latest web and web-mobile geospatial technologies.
  • Compare COTS, MOTS, GOTS and NOTS solutions​.

Effective as of Winter 2024

Related Programs

GIS Programming 2 (GIST 8010) is offered as a part of the following programs:

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  • Indicates programs with a co-op option.

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