Application Development

This topic is split into two modules with 3 ECTS each. You can enroll them individually or choose both to earn 6 ECTS:

Module 1: Basics of Application Development
(3 ECTS)
Geoinformatic experts don’t just use the tools. They build them.
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this module, you get the big picture of application development beyond coding by understanding system architectures, understand the role of client-side and server-side scripting languages versus compiled programming languages, made the first steps into structuring code according to the object-oriented programming paradigm.

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Module 2: Application Development using JavaScript
(3 ECTS)
JavaScript – the scripting language for web applications.
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this module, you know the structure of JavaScript code to write simple scripts from scratch, can apply the model-view-controller principle to design more complex scripts, can make use of frameworks and libraries to reuse existing code,develop a web-based application that acquires, processes and visualises spatial data, use web-browsers for debugging your code.