Social Media And Global Computing ACST 3540

Professor: Alan Shaw, Ph.D. Email: ashaw8@kennesaw.edu Class Website – KSU D2L Brightspace: http://kennesaw.view.usg.edu/

Course Objectives Understand the basic principles of writing software using Visual Studio and the .NET framework Understand the differences between MVC and Web forms applications Understand how to create controllers and actions to manage the workflow of a web application Learn how to implement a model using both custom classes and Entity Framework data models Learn to use AJAX and jQuery libraries Learn to work with JSON and XML data Learn to build REST (Representational State Transfer) Services Be able to analyze the social, economic and political impact of new social media technologies on a local and global scale