By attending the course and fulfilling the project and assignments, you will be able to represent the following knowledge, skills and competences:

Subject-related skills:

• Explain the structure of data, information, and knowledge.
• Explain and apply different character encodings.
• Define data structure, particularly tree structure.
• Design a simple database and applying SQL using MySQL.
• Create HTML pages, using CSS and JavaScripts.
• Key aspects of code documentation.
• Basic process for the design of user interfaces.
• Create XML documents, describe XML structures using DTD and XSD, retrieve XML information using XPath, transform XML information using XSLT.

Transferable skills:

• Team work,
• Creating an idea and developing it,
• Designing and developing a project by using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, and XML,
• Presenting your work to others,
• Providing a report collaboratively,
• Working responsibly with AI tools such as GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT,

The aim of this course is not only to provide you with relevant theoretical knowledge, but also to enable you to put what you have learned into practical use. The design of the course reflects this, combining phases of knowledge acquisition with exercises and practical application. The instructor takes the role of a mentor, rather than a teacher; hence the course is driven by your active participation and learning needs.

The course consist of

(1) five core units,

(2) self-organized, autonomous study periods,

(3) self-organized project work in groups, and

(4) a workshop day (unit-6) for presenting the results of the project.

Courses: GK1 Grundzüge der ITK (Foundations in ICT) for WU students attending the specialisation  - this is a fixed restriction that cannot be waived under any circumstances!

Recommended:  BIS I, BIS II  (see also recommended previous knowledge and skills in the syllabus)

Administrative: Registration in the LPIS, attendance of the first unit, participation in course planning

Please NOTE:

• The number of available places is limited and there is often a list of students waiting for free places. If you have signed up for the course and during the registration period find out you will not attend, please remove your name from the list via LPIS. This will make your place available to others.
• The participation in the first unit is mandatory; students who fail to come forfeit their place to students on the waiting list. Students can excuse themselves if the reason for missing the first unit is serious and will concern only the first unit. Students who are absent on the first session without bringing an absent note lose their place in the course. This place will be allocated to students in the waiting list who come to the first session according to the waiting list order.