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2006-2007 / Course descriptions / GI101705 GIS and application development  

GI101705 GIS and application development

Course Code
GI101705

Course Name
GIS and application development

Credits
10.00

Target Audience
First year students - Bachelor of GIS

Prerequisites

Introduction to GIS or equivalent after application .

Objectives

To obtain:

  • knowledge of methods to collect, maintain and prepare data for common use
  • knowledge of possibilities related to distributed data information, division of data and mobile data use
  • introductory skills in database and internet programme development
Topics
  • Data structures and data modells
  • Data collection and data maintenance
  • Distributed GIS
  • Databases and Internet/GIS on the Internet
  • Programming in Visual Basic 2005
  • Data storage
  • ASP.NET/HTML/XML
  • Datamodelling
  • Create relation databases, insert, obtain and edit

    data

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • ADO.NET
  • Linking to pages and files
  • Data security
  • Web Services
Instruction

Lectures, lab exercises, group and individual work.

Mandatory Assignments

Portofolio containing a given number of exercises shall be delivered and accepted within announced deadline.

Evaluation

Oral exam based on portofolio and mandatory literature. The student must bring along a copy of his/her file to the oral exam.

Grades
Grades from A-F, where A is the best and E is the lowest pass mark.

Revised date
2006.06.30

Revised by
Liv Møller-Christensen