{"id":2197,"date":"2010-07-12T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T17:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?page_id=2197"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:23:44","slug":"cs401","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs401\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Web Application Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<style><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span>p {margin-bottom:0px;} .course-feed .cf-course h4 {display: none; white-space: wrap;} .button{width:125px;}<\/style>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"course-feed\"><div class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<h4>Introduction to Web Application Development<\/h4>\n\t<p class=\"meta\">MET CS 401 (4 credits)<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p>Undergraduate Prerequisites: (METCS231 OR METCS232) or instructor's consent - This course focuses on building core competencies in web design and development. It begins with a complete immersion into HTML essentially XHTML and Dynamic HTML (DHTML). Students are exposed to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), as well as Dynamic CSS. The fundamentals of JavaScript language including object-oriented JavaScript is covered comprehensively. AJAX with XML and JSON are covered, as they are the primary means to transfer data from client and server. Prereq: METCS231 OR METCS232 or instructor's consent.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"\"><em>2026SPRGMETCS401A1, Jan 20th to Apr 30th 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<th>Days<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Start<\/th>\n\t\t<th>End<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Type<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Bldg<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Room<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t<td>T<\/td>\n\t<td>06:00 PM<\/td>\n\t<td>08:45 PM<\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td>CAS<\/td>\n\t<td>315<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Format &amp; Syllabus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"btn-group\">\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">On Campus<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/05\/CS601-SUM-25.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/01\/401.pdf\">CS401 SPRG26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/05\/CS601-SUM-25.pdf\">CS401 SUM 25<\/a> <a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/SHEEHAN_MET_CS401_601_Spring_2025-1.pdf\">CS401 SPRG25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/04\/Summer_2024_v1.0.1_Syllabus_SHEEHAN.pdf\">CS401 SUM24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2023\/01\/SHEEHAN_CS401_601_Spring_2023_Tuesdays.pdf\">CS401 SPRG23<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2023\/01\/MET_CS401_Fall_2022.pdf\">CS401 FALL22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/01\/MET-CS-401_601_Spring_2022__SHEEHAN-1.pdf\">CS401 SPRG22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2021\/08\/Fall_2021_METCS401_601__Prof_SHEEHAN_ver1.1.0.pdf\">CS401 FALL21<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2020\/08\/METCS_601_Fall_2020_SHEEHAN-1.pdf\">CS401 FALL20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2020\/06\/CS401-Summer-2020.pdf\">CS401 SUM20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/11\/METCS401-__-Introduction-to-Web-Development.pdf\">CS401 FALL19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS401_Spring-2017.pdf\">CS401 SPRG17<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2017\/10\/CS401_Fall-2017.pdf\">CS401 FALL17<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\"><button class=\"button\" disabled=\"disabled\">Online<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\"><button class=\"button\" disabled=\"disabled\">Blended<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfloat\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Format &amp; Syllabus: On Campus CS401 SPRG26CS401 SUM 25 CS401 SPRG25CS401 SUM24CS401 SPRG23CS401 FALL22CS401 SPRG22CS401 FALL21CS401 FALL20CS401 SUM20CS401 FALL19CS401 SPRG17CS401 FALL17 Online Blended &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2828,"featured_media":0,"parent":7301,"menu_order":86,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31239,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2197\/revisions\/31239"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}