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This course is designed for those who have no or minimal computer experience. Explore the basics of a Windows computer. Learn to perform common tasks.
Price: $49.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: U100
Prerequisites: prior computer experience is not necessary.
Build on your basic computer skills. Topics include: working with Desktop, files and folders, printing, and searching.
Price: $59.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: U101
Prerequisites: Using Computers - Level 1 (or equivalent)
Enhance your experience with your Windows computer. Learn about: keyword shortcuts, personalizing Windows/Programs, user accounts, networking, and system maintenance.
Price: $69.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: U102
Prerequisites: Using Computers - Level 2 (or equivalent)
This introductory course is for those who are new to Internet. Learn to access and use the Internet.
Price: $49.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: B103
Prerequisites: Using Computers - Level 1 (or equivalent)
Enhance your basic internet skills. Learn to perform common tasks such as searches to find information and websites, saving and printing web pages, and emailing.
Price: $59.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: B104
Prerequisites: Browsing the Internet - Level 1 (or equivalent)
Take your internet skills to the next level. Learn to work with multiple browsers, windows, and tabs, and manage favorites, history, security and privacy features, and pop-ups.
Price: $69.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: B105
Prerequisites: Browsing the Internet - Level 2 (or equivalent)
This course is intended for individuals and business owners who want to establish their own online presence. Get all the details involved in creating a new website. Topics include domain registration, website copy, website development tools, website hosting, and website marketing.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: L106
Prerequisites: Browsing the Internet - Level 2 (or equivalent)
Gain the basic photo editing and generating skills. Topics include: image formats, image editing, creating animations, adding text, and adding layers.
Price: $79.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: P107
Prerequisites: Using Computers - Level 2 (or equivalent)
Having a website alone is not sufficient. Attracting relevant traffic to a website is vital to increasing opportunities and sales. This does not happen by chance, however. Learn the basics of getting your website ready for the major search engines. The class will cover proven techniques to improve search results and what costly mistakes to avoid.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: S108
Prerequisites: Browsing the Internet - Level 2 (or equivalent)
With email marketing, you can send newsletters, special offers, product announcements, or something else exciting to your prospects and customers via email. Learn how to get started and improve results.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: E109
Prerequisites: Browsing the Internet - Level 2 (or equivalent)
Microsoft Office
Learn to create and work documents in Word. Topics include: creating, saving, opening, and printing documents, text formatting/editing, copying and pasting, and creating lists.
Price: $79.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: M100
Prerequisites: Using Computers - Level 1 (or equivalent)
Use advanced techniques to enhance and customize your word documents. Learn to work with tables and graphics, perform spell checks, track changes, insert links, header & footer, special characters, and page numbers, and create mailing labels.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: M101
Prerequisites: Microsoft Word - Level 1 (or equivalent)
In this introductory course you will learn to create and customize slides, run a slide show, add video files, apply templates, and print a presentation.
Price: $79.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: M102
Prerequisites: Using Computers - Level 1 (or equivalent)
This introductory course focuses on creating and editing simple spreadsheets, using built-in formulas, basic charting, working with multiple worksheets, and sorting data.
Price: $49.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: M103
Prerequisites: Using Computers - Level 1 (or equivalent)
This course focuses on strengthening basic Excel skills. Topics covered writing and editing complex formulas, using various built-in functions, finding duplicates, using filters, creating tables, using references, and working with multiple spreadsheets.
Price: $59.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: M104
Prerequisites: Microsoft Excel - Level 1 (or equivalent)
This course introduces concepts of programming with Visual Basic and Excel. Learn how to extend the power of Excel by writing your own code.
Price: $199.00. Duration: 4 hours. CRN: M105
Prerequisites: Microsoft Excel - Level 2 (or equivalent)
Website Development
An introductory course to HTML. Start here if you are new to HTML. Learn about: the basic building blocks of HTML, elements, attributes, nesting, organizing code, and adding comments. What you learn in this course can be used everywhere and every time you create a web page.
Price: $69.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: H100
Prerequisites: Using Computers - Level 3 (or equivalent), Browsing the Internet - Level 1 (or equivalent)
This course focuses on creating web pages using the concepts introduced in HTML 100. In this course you will create and work with web documents (or web pages). You will learn how to use elements such html, head, title, and body.
Price: $79.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: H101
Prerequisites: HTML 100 - HTML basics (or equivalent)
This course builds on what you have learned in HTML 100 and 101. In this course, you will learn about how to create: headings, paragraphs, lists. Additionally, the course covers block versus inline elements. Before taking this course please be sure you know the fundamentals of HTML (HTML 100 and 101).
Price: $99.00. Duration: 3 hours. CRN: H102
Prerequisites: HTML 101 - Working with document architecture (or equivalent)
Working with text alone, as we have done up to this point in courses HTML 100-102, may sound boring. HTML is more than just displaying textual content. In this course, you will learn how to use graphics in your web pages.
The course will cover: different file formats for graphics, inserting graphics in to a web page, adding description of the graphic, controlling the dimensions of the graphic, and controlling graphic alignment and spacing.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 3 hours. CRN: H103
Prerequisites: HTML 102 - Working with text (or equivalent)
The World Wide Web (WWW), as we know it, would not exist without hyperlinks. In this course, you will learn about: types of links and how to create them.
Learn about creating relative links (links to local files), external links (links to sources available on the Internet), reference links, and email links. Together, we will create textual and graphical links. To create graphical links, you have to know to insert graphics into a webpage. Therefore before taking this course know to insert graphics into a web page.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 3 hours. CRN: H104
Prerequisites: HTML 103 - Working with graphics (or equivalent)
This course provides instruction on how to use simple to complex tables in HTML. You will learn how to: define a table, control a table's width, specify spacing between and within a cell, span rows or (and) columns, and nest tables.
In HTML tables now days are increasingly used for only displaying tabular data. So in the course we will create data using the concepts you mastered in HTML 102, HTML 103, and HTML 104.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 3 hours. CRN: H105
Prerequisites: HTML 104 - Working with hyperlinks (or equivalent)
Web is not just about presenting data, it also supports collecting data from the web users. To accomplish the data collection task, HTML provides you a number of options to build a form. In this course, you will learn how to build a form.
The course will cover creating: textboxes, check boxes, radio buttons, selection lists/menu choices, submit buttons, and textareas.
Although HTML 103, HTML 104, or HTML 105 are not required for this course, mastery of the topics covered in those course will help you in this course. For instance, a graphic on the form page may show the steps involved in or benefits from filling out the form. Similarly, a form page can't be found without links. In fact, to provide a form processing script, it is very helpful to know the difference between a relative versus external links/sources - a topic for HTML 104.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 3 hours. CRN: H106
Prerequisites: HTML 105 - Using tables (or equivalent)
This is a 8 hours long course and indented for those HTML coders wanting to understand the philosophy of HTML and how to use it to construct web pages. Topics for this course include defining structure for an HTML document, working with text (to create headings, paragraphs, lists, nested lists, line breaks, and use special characters), formatting text, and specifying colors.
Price: $199.00. Duration: 8 hours. CRN: H107
Prerequisites: Using Computers - Level 3 (or equivalent), Browsing the Internet - Level 1 (or equivalent)
This builds up on the skills you acquired in HTML 150. In this 8 hour long course, we will present more essential techniques needed in creating a web page. Agenda:
- Working with graphics
- Optimizing graphics for use on the Web
- Placing graphics on your web page
- Overcoming challenges in positioning graphics on the page
- Customizing graphic properties
- Hyperlinks - learn how to create all kinds of links including relative, absolute, external, reference, email, and graphical. These types of links allows you to:
- link to other pages on your website or someone else's website,
- link to documents on the Web, and
- create email (mailto:) links, links to specific sections of a web page.
- Learn to create image maps
- Learn to embed multimedia files (sounds and videos) in your web page
Price: $249.00. Duration: 8 hours. CRN: H108
Prerequisites: HTML 150 - Introduction to HTML (or equivalent)
This course introduces more essential concepts needed in building a successful web page. Agenda:
- Working with tables - Tables are a great way to show data in a tabular format. In this lesson, you will learn how to create a table, specify table width, control the table's display properties (such as border, cell spacing, cell padding, background colors, etc.), create table headings, and span multiple columns or rows. In this course, we will also cover how to create nested tables - placing a table within another table.
- Web forms - learn of the different options HTML supports to gather user input. In this lesson, in addition to the discussion of validating user input you will learn to:
- Create textboxes (input boxes, password fields, hidden fields)
- Create multiline textboxes or text areas
- Create radio buttons
- Create check boxes
- Build selection lists/menu choices
- Add submit and reset buttons
Price: $249.00. Duration: 8 hours. CRN: H112
Prerequisites: HTML 151 - Intermediate HTML (or equivalent)
This is the course to take if you want to see server-side programming in action. The course is designed so a beginner programmer can easily understand and follow. This course assumes you have some prior programming and HTML coding experience. Topics covered:
- Variables and data types
- Declaring/creating variables
- Naming conventions
- Creating constants
- Using arrays
- Working with numbers
- Working with strings
- Working with dates
- Decision structures
- Using IF structure
- Using IF, ELSE structure
- Using IF, ELSE, Else IF structure
- Nesting IF statements
- Testing more than one conditions
- Using SELECT, CASE structure
- Looping structures
- Using FOR, NEXT
- Using DO, LOOP
- Nesting loops
- Exiting loops prematurely
- Subroutines
- Syntax
- Calling subroutines
- Passing values
- Variables scope
- Calling other subroutines
- Functions
- Syntax
- Calling functions
- Passing values
- Returning values
- Variables scope
- Calling other functions
- Debugging
- Catching and responding to errors
Price: $199.00. Duration: 8 hours. CRN: A109
Prerequisites: HTML 100 - HTML basics (or equivalent)
Take your classic ASP skills to the next level. In this course, we will work with data coming from the client and a database. In this course you will learn how to collect and process user input and work with data stored in a database. Topics for this course:
- Reading client data
- Processing user input
- Getting data from the form
- Reading data from the URL
- Reading browser info
- Using ADO
- In this lesson, we will build a three tier architecture (consists of presentation layer, application layer, and database layer) based application utilizing: the presentation layer, application layer, and the database layer. Our presentation layer is what we will display on the web browser (using HTML). Our application layer (this represents the business logic or rules) will be coded in class ASP. This middle tier contains our application logic and ties together the presentation layer with our database layer (this contains the business data). In the process of this exercise, we will perform the following actions: connect to a database, retrieve data, sort data, filter data, add data, and delete data.
Before enrolling in this course, make sure you have some HTML, scripting/programming, and database experience.
Price: $249.00. Duration: 8 hours. CRN: A110
Prerequisites: ASP 100 - Introduction to classic ASP (or equivalent)
- Using FSO (File System Object)
- Reading from a text file
- Writing to a text file
- Reading from a XML file
- Emailing
- Emailing a text message
- Emailing an HTML message
- Working with cookies
- Write cookies
- Read cookies
- Display random content. For this lesson, we will build a small-scale random content displayer. The object of this lesson is to demonstrate how to build a mini program that shows random quotes (from a text file) and banners (for advertising) based on the criteria defined in a database. For the purpose of building this program, we will use all of the concepts presented in our classic ASP courses thus far. The output of this program is to show:
- a random quote
- a random banner (to mimic online advertising)
Price: $249.00. Duration: 8 hours. CRN: A111
Prerequisites: ASP 101 - Classic ASP Intermediate (or equivalent)
Desktop Programming
This course is designed for those considering beginning a programming career. If you don't have any prior programming experience and want to learn programming concepts, start with this course. In the class, you will create your first working program.
Price: $69.00. Duration: 2 hours. CRN: P100
Prerequisites: Using Computers - Level 3 (or equivalent)
Without variables, a programming language would make the programmer's job more difficult, if not impossible. With variables, you can store, manipulate or print values. If this does not make sense, you are the perfect candidate for our training. In this course, we will train you how to use variables properly. Beyond that, you will learn: types, declaring variables, keywords, assignment, and printing variables.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 3 hours. CRN: P101
Prerequisites: Prog 100 - Introduction to Computer Programming (or equivalent)
In this course we will use arithmetic operators to evaluate numeric values. We will also look at operator precedence.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 3 hours. CRN: P102
Prerequisites: Prog 101 - Variables (or equivalent)
Believe it or not programs make decisions. If programs did not make decisions, their applications or use will certainly curtailed. How do you let your programs make decisions? You introduce conditional statements in your program. By using a conditional statement, your program behaves one way if the condition is met or behaves differently if the condition is not met. Learn all about constructing and testing conditional logic in this course.
Topics for this course: construct an if statement, if/else structure, using else if, nesting if statements, and select case.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 3 hours. CRN: P103
Prerequisites: Prog 102 - Arithmetic Operations (or equivalent)
In the context of programming, looping refers to the repetition of one or more statements. Don't worry if that does not make sense now. If you want a similar or identical task to be repeated over and over, you want to use iterations in your program.
Topics for this course: learn to construct, a for loop structure, do/while loop structure, exiting prematurely, and nesting loops.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 3 hours. CRN: P104
Prerequisites: Prog 103 - Making Decisions (or equivalent)
As a beginner programmer, creating of functions may not be at the top of your list. Functions or methods are used extensively by experienced programmers. What a function gives you is the opportunity to group your code with a name. By doing that, your program is simplified, and eliminates the need for repetitive code.
These are the topics for this course: creating functions, returning value, passing parameters, and variable scope.
Price: $99.00. Duration: 3 hours. CRN: P105
Prerequisites: Prog 104 - Looping (or equivalent)