Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Ask Slashdot: Modern Web Development Applied Science Associates Degree?

Posted by samzenpus on from the teach-them-well dept.

First time accepted submitter campingman777 writes "I am being asked by students to develop an associates of applied science in modern web development at my community college. I proposed the curriculum to some other web forums and they were absolutely against it. Their argument was that students would not learn enough higher math, algorithms, and data structures to be viable employees when their industry changes every five years. As part of our mission is to turn out employees immediately ready for the work force, is teaching knowledge-based careers as a vocation appropriate?"

1 of 246 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I'm confused by campingman777 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    SEMESTER 1
            English I
            Intro to computers (or waived) (CIS 100)
            Programming tools (Github, IDEs, StackExchange, JIRA)
            Intro to Programming Logic (CIS 104)

    SEMESTER 2
            Algebra I
            English II (tech writing)
            Project Management (software)
            Web Development I (HTML & CSS)

    SEMSTER 3
            Government
            Interpersonal Communication
            Databases I (re-visit & modify current offering)
            Web Development II (Javascript & jQuery)

    SEMESTER 4
            Cultural Anthropology
            Introduction to Unix (CIS 140)
            Web Development III (node.js, MVC frameworks, e-commerce)
            Capstone Project