TECH 288 - Advanced Web Application Development Using ColdFusion

A hands-on exploration of advanced Web application design and construction using ColdFusion. Students learn the basics of creating an e-commerce site by building a fully operational storefront, shopping cart, and sales reporting system. Topics include creating and using complex variables, maintaining state, reusing code, creating user-defined and full-text search facilities, building interactive data-driven graphs, and integrating an automatic e-mail facility. PREREQUISITE(S): TECH 278 or consent of department. Three hours lecture/discussion each week.

3 semester hours

Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:

Utilize lists, arrays, and structures correctly and effectively in CF templates. Explain their differences and applications.
Correctly utilize code reuse mechanisms inherent to the language, i.e., functions, custom tags, components, and includes.
Create used customizable search facilities and display results.
Utilize the Verity full-text search facility and return search results.
Build dynamic Web charts and graphs.
Create a custom client-independent email facility.
Create a dynamic bulk email facility from addresses stored in a database.
Build a storefront, shopping cart, and sales reporting web application utilizing CF and the skills listed in these objectives.

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