1. Social Media And Global Computing ACST 3540

2. Professor: Alan Shaw, Ph.D.
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3. 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