Teaching Web Technology by Learning by Doing
This paper presents the author's subjective experience in using program example to teach a course on Web Applications Development. The purpose of the course is to teach the principles of data base driven web sites. A series of program examples are developed to provide students framework of Web based applications, Lectures and demonstrations are used to provide information on a need to know basis. Each student is responsible for a course project, building their knowledge on database, on ASP and on client/server applications within a "learning by Doing" environment, and had developed near professional quality web sites by the end of the semester. This Application Centered approach is proved to be efficient learning style among students and grasped database application programming skills effectively.
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