Web applications standards

These are the PROPOSED standards used in the course for web applications. The standards are framed by a draft version of the K-12 computer science framework. The standards borrow from ideas in IB computer science course, from CSTA standards, the W3 consortium, and from professional web developers. In many cases, the standards are pulled from industry leaders. For example, the databases standards are used (with permission) from Oracle and the PHP programming standards are used (pending permission) from the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf.

A note

Concepts answer the question: What does a computer scientist need to know? Practices answer the question: How do people do computer science? (source)

Essential Understandings

When this course is over, students will have the skills and knowledge to:

• Understand the foundations of the web
• Apply a design process to build quality web applications
• Apply computational thinking to problems, designs and solutions

Categories of standards

Standard Level:

• Design process
• Computational thinking, problem-solving and programming
• Fundamentals of the web
• Programming in PHP
• Programming in HTML
• Programming in CSS
• Databases
• Databases: programming in SQL

Higher Level:

• Operating systems
• The Apache Web Server
• Programming in Javascript, JQuery and JQuery UI

Use an idea, equation, principle, theory or law in relation to a given problem or issue.

Produce a plan, simulation or model.