2014-2015 Academic Catalog 
    
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CIS 253 - Application Development Tools



5.0 Credits
An introduction to application development using MS-Access. Includes development of tables, forms, queries, reports, macros, and menus needed to support the application. Prerequisite: CIS 250 and CS 115 or concurrent enrollment in both, with minimum grades of 2.5 or equivalent.

Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Explain the fundamental principles of application design [COMMUNICATE]
  2. Use MS Access to build a student designed application. [REASON]
  3. Describe how Access integrates with enterprise systems. [COMMUNICATE]
  4. Given a database design and a few pre-built entities, build the following components of an Access application: tables to store data; forms and sub-forms for data entry into tables; reports that display data in appropriate groups and formatting; queries that assemble data from several tables for use with forms and reports; HTML documents created from custom queries and exported to the Web; modules and event procedures with VBA code to accomplish specific tasks; menus for easy access to the various parts of the application. [REASON]



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