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. This course is a prerequisite for CIS 234.

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

Explain the fundamental principles of application design [COMMUNICATE]
Use MS Access to build a student designed application. [REASON]
Describe how Access integrates with enterprise systems. [COMMUNICATE]
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]