1. Combined Option: PHP, ASP.NET, and iOS
Web and Mobile
Combined Option: PHP, ASP.NET, and iOS

2. Term 3: PHP Server-side Web Scripting with PHP 5 hours per week
75 hours total
Term 3: PHP

3. Mature Course PHP has been taught at BCIT for about ten years
Two PHP courses
COMP1920, COMP2920
72 hours total
Mature Course

4. Components HTTP server Design patterns APIs Security Unit testing OOP
Text files
Frameworks
HTML forms
Session management
PEAR/PECL
Cookies
Encryption
Templating
Regular expressions
Databases
Graphics
Command-line scripts
and more…
Components

5. Why PHP? A very popular programming language
35 percent of web traffic is handled by PHP, says Gutmans.
Wikipedia says 75 percent of websites use PHP.
 Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo, and Photobucket are all built in PHP.
WordPress, the most popular blogging platform in the world, runs on PHP and probably accounts for half of that 35 percent.
Most of the other major content management systems, such as Drupal and Joomla, are also built in PHP.
Half of all developer job postings on Craigslist call for PHP developers.
PHP is used by 81.9% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know.
google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=dO9fU8HlBqvP8gfPyoDQCg#q=how+popular+is+php
Why PHP?

6. Term 4: iOS Mobile Development with iOS 5 hours per week
75 hours total
Term 4: iOS

7. Components Objective-C XCode Testing MVC Debugging Memory Management
Core Data (DB)
Gestures
Interact with servers
Accelerometer
Scrum (yup, even here)
Universal Apps (phone and tablet)
Publishing to iTunes
Analytics
and more…
Components

8. Why iOS? The “other” mobile Platform
Builds on the Android course in term 3
Not just phones: tablets, cars, and potentially wearables
Designing for devices is different than designing for PCs
1.75 Billion smartphones in 2014
2.51 Billion smartphones in 2017
Over 200 jobs in the Lower Mainland listed today on one site alone.
Why iOS?

9. Term 4: ASP.NET Web Development with ASP.NET 5 hours per week
75 hours total
Term 4: ASP.NET

10. Mature Course ASP.NET has been taught at BCIT for about ten years
ASP.NET courses
COMP2870 (PTS)
COMP3973 (PTS)
COMP4870
Mature Course

11. Components C# ASP.NET Web Forms ASP.NET MVC Visual Studio Debugging
Caching
LINQ
Entity Framework
RAZOR
REST APIs
OpenAuth
Code First Development
SQL Server
Deployment to IIS & Cloud
Unit Testing
Mobile web
Server Controls
and more…
Components

12. Why ASP.NET? Fast development - Drag & Drop
Free in the Windows platform (Mono under LINUX)
Visual Studio is the best IDE out there
Fully object oriented
Compiled
After PHP, ASP.NET is the most widely used web technology with 28.6% market share
Why ASP.NET?

13. Questions? Jason_Harrison@bcit.ca D’Arcy Smith Medhat Elmasry
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Web developer since 1999
D’Arcy Smith
Developer since 1993
Medhat Elmasry
Questions?