Full-Stack Web Development

Information technology professionals spend time each day communicating orally and in writing with their supervisors, colleagues and clients. As problem-solvers and entrepreneurs in industry, you need to communicate quickly, clearly, and effectively. This course will teach you how to be a professional and efficient communicator at work. You will write effective business correspondence and instructions and deliver a formal oral presentation to your set. The first term establishes the principles and basic patterns on which you will build more advanced applications in the second term.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

This course introduces the students to the basics of front-end web development. Students learn how to utilize HTML 5 and CSS 3 in order to create web templates. Topics include Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 3, and an introduction to JavaScript. This course is the foundation for subsequent web-development courses.
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This course introduces the fundamental concepts of programming and problem solving. Students taking this course will design, implement, test, and debug programs that incorporate: variables, expressions, assignments, I/O, conditional and iterative control constructs, functions, and parameter passing. The course assumes no previous programming experience. Students will be assessed through quizzes, assignments, and exams.
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This course introduces students to collaboration tools, project-management tools, and team-management tools such as version control for both computer source code as well as digital media assets. Students learn how to install, configure, and utilize a Version Control System (VCS) such as Git, how to create, manage, and remove forks and branches, and how to successfully perform pull requests. Other topics include digital signing of commits, and analyzing project history. Communication tools will also be learned and used, including such tools as Slack, Trello, GitHub, Basecamp, or MSProject.
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This course introduces students to discrete mathematics, statistics, and Boolean logic, and applies these mathematical constructs to computer program code. The purpose of this course is twofold: one, introduce students to math that is immediately applicable to their studies and programming for web application development; two, demonstrate to students the importance of these facets of math in their software development and design studies by allowing students to create real-world examples in computer program code that demonstrate the importance of math in computer science.
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

This course teaches students the best practices for design fundamentals across media, producing results suitable for web, mobile applications, and other interactive environments. Students will learn how to present the client’s message or objective in a manner that resonates with the target audience and enhances overall communication, human interaction, and usability. The design fundamental course provides a solid foundation for delivering interactive and engaging content for web and mobile applications. This course also includes screen-design principles, digital colour theory; typography; web and mobile page layout and design; correct use of white space; web and mobile graphics, images, and interface design. Students will have hands-on practice developing a series of conceptual projects that demonstrate their work towards creating a website in collaboration with other courses in this program.
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

In this course, students will learn how to create and edit images and utilize them as a design tool to express ideas. The differences between raster and vector editing techniques will be explained, as well as when it is best to use each of them. Students will learn how to isolate and colour correct parts of an image. They will also learn how to enhance images using retouching. To strengthen the final design, variant techniques will be introduced, such as masking, blending, and painting with brushes. Students will showcase their understanding of these topics by completing individual assignments, as well as working in teams in a final project.
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

User Experience (UX) encompasses a wide range of activities including User Interface (UI) design, Information Architecture (IA) and field research. Usability design and testing, tight integration and collaboration with software development processes are included in UX. This hands-on course is an introduction to UX/UI for those who are creating user interfaces for web sites, mobile applications, and information systems, as well as those who want a better understanding of the role of UX/UI. In conjunction with 2911, students will follow an iterative and agile approach focusing on User-Centered Design (UCD) as the motivator for product direction. Participants will be expected to work in teams, with an emphasis on collaboration, brainstorming, and continued evolution of an interface concept based on UCD.
Prerequisite(s):

• ACIT 1620

​Information technology professionals spend time each day communicating orally and in writing with their supervisors, colleagues and clients. As web developers, you need to communicate quickly, clearly, and effectively. This course will build on the skills you learned in first term to be an efficient and professional communicator at work and on the web. You will learn how to conduct an effective job search and write the accompanying resume and cover letter to support it. You will also write effective reports, deliver a persuasive oral presentation to your set, and participate effectively in meetings and group work. You will prepare a formal report and present it orally and in writing. The course will pay particular attention to best practices in writing for the web.
Prerequisite(s):

• COMM 1116

This course continues from Web Development 1 and introduces the students to client-side programming with JavaScript. Students learn how to use JavaScript to make changes to pages; style, create animations, do form validation; and connect to a web server. Topics include JQuery, AJAX, event handling, validation constraints API, local storage, and the Document Object Model (DOM).
Prerequisite(s):

• COMP 1171

​Beginning with an overview of the goals of Agile, this course delves into hands-on Scrum implementations. Students learn to implement primary agile methods and the scrum framework. Topics include: Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean/Kanban, Dynamic Systems Development Method, and Feature-Driven Development. Participants will practice Scrum Planning Sessions, Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Backlog Grooming Sessions, and Sprint Retrospectives. Each student will experience the roles of Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner, and "The Scrum Team" both in class face to face and online with a dispersed agile team. Successful participants will be able to form agile teams that complete projects in less time and under budget compared to traditional methods.
Prerequisite(s):

• ACIT 2811 UX/UI Development (note: these courses can work collaboratively as corequisites)

​This course introduces students to utilize database technologies to persist application data – both on the server as well as on the client. Students learn how to model data using relational, object, and hierarchical models. Students also learn to install, configure, and use relational and NoSQL databases such as MySQL and MongoDB respectively. Other topics include local versus remote storage, transactions, querying, schemas, data formats such as XML and JSON, and normalization. Students will use NoSQL data storage services such as Firebase or other Backend As A Service (cloud) stores that clients can access in real time.
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• COMP 1171

This hands-on course follows on from COMP 1320 in the Full-Stack Web Development Diploma. Students are introduced to the fundamental concepts of design, development, testing, and debugging intermediate-level programs with an object-oriented programming language. Topics include language syntax, data abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and exception handling. Design Patterns and Graphical User Interfaces will be applied to appropriate problems. Upon successful completion, participants will be prepared to move on to more advanced courses in application and web development.
Prerequisite(s):

• COMP 1320

​This capstone course is a culmination of the knowledge and applied learning obtained from the first two terms of the program. Students work in interdisciplinary teams in this five-week term where projects are ideated, pitched, validated, designed, built, tested, and finally presented to faculty and class peers. The purpose of this course is to expose students to the interdisciplinary and collaborative environment of design and engineering while committing to a project within an intense and fast-paced timeframe.
Prerequisite(s):

• Completion of terms 1 and 2A,

This practical course is for BCIT Computing and Business students who want to learn about laws and policies applicable to the Internet and information technology, as well as intellectual property rights. Topics covered in this course include the following: copyright, patents, trade secret, trademarks, domain names, cybercrime, privacy, e-commerce and online contracts, and online advertising.
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This course introduces students to install, configure, and run web HTTP servers such as Apache, IIS, and NGINX on their local machines. Students will run web applications on the server. Students will create and manage virtual hosts, configure and make use important issues such as security, HTTPS, redirecting and aliases, logging, performance optimization and troubleshooting. Students will also learn to manage remote host servers to do the same as the above.
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​In this course, students will learn to use client-side JavaScript frameworks, such as React and MVC frameworks such as Angular, to create fast and modular applications. They will also learn to use server-side JavaScript using platforms such as Node.js, and build networked web applications. Labs and exercises focus on how to structure and develop web applications following current industry standards.
Prerequisite(s):

• COMP 2131 and COMP 2523

​This course has students working in interdisciplinary teams to design, develop, and build a mobile or web-based application. Projects from this course come from industry with a focus on mobile and web applications. Students are expected to demonstrate initiative by proactively communicating with clients, performing both design and software iterations on a regular basis, report to faculty with progress, and perform quantifiable user tests on each iteration of the product. This collaborative, interdisciplinary team-based approach gives students the opportunity to demonstrate their successful processes during project realization.
Prerequisite(s):

• IDSP 2380

This course covers the creative design process, including UI design principles, researching and conceptualizing an idea, resourcing materials, creating graphic user interfaces (GUI), designing for UX through prototyping and testing, presenting a design to the client, creating the technical artwork, making revisions, and outputting a final design project for a collaborative desktop, web or mobile application. The course also examines the 2D and 3D art, typography, imagery, colours, objects, and signs in UI/UX design. With consideration for diverse audiences, we will introduce students to rules and theories about user perception and its influence on user experience.
Prerequisite(s):

• MDIA 1106

The focus of this course will be to provide the student with e-Marketing techniques and strategies that can help any forward-thinking organization be competitive in today's business environment. Key areas that promise to leverage the power of Internet are: customer relationship management (CRM); 1:1 marketing; permission-based e-mail marketing; viral marketing; attributes of a good Website and Website marketing goals; Website promotion/search engine positioning/ranking, and key Internet technologies/terminologies/acronyms.
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

This course covers the legal and ethical issues that IT professionals should be knowledgeable of. Case studies will be used to illustrate recent events in the businesses and transactions related to IT. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to analyze the impact of technology on individuals, organizations and society from a legal and ethical perspective.
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

This hands-on course introduces students to C# programming, the .NET platform, and web application development with ASP.NET. Building on prior experience with JavaScript, relational databases, and object-oriented programming, students will design and implement secure, full-stack web applications using modern .NET tools and practices. Topics include routing, API design, data access, authentication, unit testing, and deployment to the cloud. Students will also gain familiarity with ASP.NET architectural patterns, including MVC, Razor Pages, and Minimal APIs. Assignments and labs emphasize clean code, testability, and real-world development workflows. ​
Prerequisite(s):

• COMP 2131 and COMP 2350 and COMP 2523 or COMP 2522

This hands-on course builds upon COMP 4514 in the Full Stack Web Development Diploma. Students are introduced to server-side scripting using PHP: a platform-independent, server-side web scripting language. Topics include: PHP theory and syntax, textfile manipulation, cookies, regular expressions, sessions, graphics, and database interactions. Labs and exercises focus on the major functions of PHP server-side scripting using a wide variety of open-source software tools and code libraries. Students practice how to write reusable classes and object-oriented scripts and use PHP frameworks such as Laravel in addition to unit-testing frameworks such as PHPUnit. Secure sessions, hashing and encryption techniques, and the use the PHP command line interface are also covered. By the end of this course successful participants will be able to create a back-end PHP service to power advanced web applications.
Prerequisite(s):

• COMP 2131 and COMP 2523

​This course has students continuing to work in interdisciplinary teams to design, develop, and build a mobile or web-based application. Projects from this course may come from industry but can also be team-pitched entrepreneurship-based projects. If the latter, student teams will tightly integrate their work from their practicum alongside their work and effort in the Entrepreneurship course. This collaborative team-based approach gives students another opportunity to demonstrate their successful processes during project realization and how to either effectively communicate with clients or how to become entrepreneurs of a technology startup. Other project features may include e-commerce and enhanced security measures within the distributed computing application.
Prerequisite(s):

• IDSP 3380

Students collect their best work into a targeted interactive portfolio. During the duration of this course, students may start new projects or refine existing ones in specific disciplines to further develop their research, management, design and programming skills in a self-directed format. A personal brand and self-promotional materials will be defined by each student to reflect their qualities, values and professional accomplishments. Students present their portfolios at the end of the course. Students are be assessed by a combination of individual projects and a group peer critique.
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

Being an entrepreneur is about more than just starting a business or two, it is about having attitude and the drive to succeed in business. All successful entrepreneurs have a similar way of thinking and possess several key personal qualities that make them so successful in business. This course will help students instill confidence in their ideas, develop presentation skills, develop a business and marketing plan, create a pitch on the fly for a new project, explore possible funding options and demystify venture capital opportunities.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.