Introduction to structured object-oriented programming for information systems. Focus on fundamental principles of programming with attention to elementary algorithms and data structures, interface design, user testing, and knowledge representation.

An introduction to programming and programming concepts for the student who doesn't self describe as a geek. The Spring 2005 version of distance LIS 545 will work with HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript and Extensible Technologies such as XML (Extensible Markup Language), XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) and XPath.