Community Education > Adult Evening Program > Fall 2008 Schedule of Classes and Workshops > Computer Technology Courses

Souderton Area Community Education offers a variety of computer classes designed to meet the basic computer literacy needs of our students. Questions? Call our office (between 9:30a.m. and 4:00p.m.) 215-721-1551 and we will refer your questions to an instructor.
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INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS - FAST TRACK CLASS
Course #203
Cost: $85
Instructor: Barbara Scholl
Tuesday & Thursday (8 Sessions) 11/4 -12/4/2008 (No Class: 11/25 & 11/27) 7:00-9:00PM each night High School - Room D-114

This user-friendly class is conducted two times a week in order to speed up your completion date. Quickly learn computer skills to enhance job performance or re-enter the work force. This basic computer class is for the totally "non-computer person". You do not need any knowledge of a computer to do well in this class. Students will be asked to bring a Flash Drive to class - instructor will explain what to purchase in first class.

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
Course #110
Cost: $85
Instructor: Jeffrey Child
Monday (8 Sessions) 9/29-11/17/2008 7:00-9:00 PM High School - Room D-116

The class will explore the features of the newest version of Microsoft Office. Emphasis on Word and Excel, with basic PowerPoint, file creation and formatting, text selection, search and replace and information linking will be taught. For those with some basic computer skills. Students should bring a Flash Drive (available at office supply stores) if you want to copy files for practice at home.

INTRO TO WEB DESIGN: HTML -- Two Identical Courses Offered
Course #108 Monday (4 Sessions) 9/29-10/20/2008 7:30-9:30PM
Course #418 Thursday (4 Sessions) 10/2-10/23/2008 7:30-9:30PM
Cost: $60 per course
Instructor: Matt Swan
Both Courses held at Souderton Area High School - Room D-119

In today's technological world, the Web is a major component of communications with an ever-growing audience to reach, whether promoting a business, or blogging about your latest family vacation. This course introduces you to the world of web design at its most basic level: HTML. We will learn what HTML code looks like, how it works, and what tags can place what materials on the screen for us. HTML is the 'heavy lifter' and is a necessary component of all Web sites.

BEGINNING CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) -Two Identical Courses are Offered
Course #102 Monday (4 Sessions) 11/3-12/1/2008 (No Class 11/24) 7:30-9:30PM
Course #402 Thursday (4 Sessions) 11/6-12/4/2008 (No Class 11/27) 7:30-9:30PM
Cost: $60 per course
Instructor: Matt Swan
Both Courses held at the Souderton Area High School - Room D-119

While the Web is the future of media, CSS is the future of the Web. While HTML does the heavy lifting and gets all of our objects onto the web page, Cascading Style Sheets give us more control over how they display. This course will cover introductory topics, such as the way CSS integrates with HTML, the syntax of CSS and the majority of its available properties. We will also consider CSS as it relates to web browser compatibility. At the end of the class, we will touch on advanced features of CSS, such as swapping style sheets (similar to the way that Yahoo! allows you to change colors and layout on their site).

DESIGN & DOMAIN
Course #307
Cost: $35
Instructor: Matt Swan
Wednesday (2 Sessions) 12/3 & 12/10/2008 7:30-9:30PM High School - Room D-119

Being able to produce a Web page might be the nitty gritty of Web design, but what makes good Web design? And once we've created our masterpiece, how do we put it on the Web so that everyone else can share in its brilliance? This two-night course spends one night focused on design, exploring good and bad Web design and a 5-point foolproof method for creating usable pages. The second night is dedicated to domain, focusing on what it takes to obtain the domain you want, defining a domain reseller, the WHOIS, and taking a look both at hosting providers and FTP, so that, once your page is done, you know what to do to put it on the Web, and whose help you need in order to do so. There is no pre-requisite for this course, and can be taken even if not taking any of the other Web design courses.

BASIC WEB SCRIPTING
Course #117
Cost: $35
Instructor: Matt Swan
Monday (2 Sessions) 12/8 & 12/15/2008 7:30-9:30PM High School - Room D-119

Beyond HTML and CSS coding, web pages can take on a certain level of interactivity - this interactivity is often the result of web scripting. In this course, we will begin to examine the language of JavaScript (not related to the similarly named Java language.) We will learn how to use scripting to automate the date on a webpage and to collect and store information from the user. JavaScript is a more 'logic' based language which does not focus on tags, but rather logical statements, such as IF THEN statements and loops. JavaScript also introduces the use of variables for evaluation and regular expressions for validation.