{"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>Prerequisites: METCS232 or instructor's consent - Build core competencies in web design and development. You will begin with a complete immersion into HTML, essentially XHTML and Dynamic HTML (DHTML). Then you will be exposed to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Dynamic CSS. The fundamentals of the JavaScript language, including object-oriented JavaScript, will be covered comprehensively, as will AJAX with XML and JSON, which are the primary means of transferring data between the client and the server.<\/p>\n\t\n\t\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}]}}