MFC5512 - Dynamic Media

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Produce interactive ‘server-side’ pages that build towards data-drive applications
Demonstrate content management online
Research and evaluate online social and business applications
Manipulate and control media assets within an application
Generate and control data via an application

Content:

This module will introduce methods for presenting and processing user-supplied information (data) online such as logins, statistics, user accounts, content management systems (CMS) (e.g. blogs, news, intranet, ecommerce) and create interactive dynamic web and mobile concepts.
A server-side language, together with HTML, CSS and graphics, will be utilised in order to allow students to create dynamic versatile and 'industry-standard' web applications.
In Part 1 the basics of a client/server-side programming language will be explored, including the concept of variables, procedures and methods. Students will be expected to adapt code to their own needs and/or produce new code in the creation of an application.
Key topics for Part 2 will consist of data structures, search methods and interface design. Students will learn how to use a server-side programming language to retrieve and write data from a database online and to present that data in an appropriate format via current CMS or development or innovation.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Through a series of lectures and workshops, students will be guided to develop the skills necessary to work collaboratively to develop Content Management Systems and Applications.

Lectures
Contact hours: 15
Intended Group size: Cohort

Workshops
Contact hours: 20
Intended Group size: 16

Guided independent study
Hours: 165

Assessment: