Enroll for Web Design, Development and Embedded Systems courses commence at UCSC

The University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), the trusted name for high-quality ICT higher education in Sri Lanka is currently in the process of enrolling freshers for few of their specialized, short-term courses. Advanced Multimedia Web Design & Development Techniques, Dynamic Web Application Development with PHP & MySQL, Embedded Systems Design & Development using Microcontroller Programming (including Robotics) courses are scheduled to commence in end of September and first week of October. These courses are designed by the staff of UCSC and closely follow the industry needs and standards.

UCSC is a centre that is internationally reputed to provide the training in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). UCSC prepare students for careers in Programming/ Software Engineering, Systems/ Network Administration, Web Development, IT Project Management, Digital Media and Animation, Database Administration and Development, IT Systems/IT Management, Business Analysis/ Systems Integration.

Advanced Multimedia Web Design & Development Techniques, Dynamic Web Application Development with PHP & MySQL are two of the courses schedule to commence in end of September 2012.

Main Course Contents of the Advanced Multimedia Web Design & Development Techniques are Overview HTML with advanced browser techniques, HTML Form handling using PHP, MySQL & Apache, Web Engineering Technologies, Dynamic web page development using CSS and Java Scripts, Graphics designing using Adobe PhotoShop CS, Animation for Web using Flash MX, Processing of Web Video Clips using Adobe Premiere Pro, Future of Web Application, Web Accessibility Techniques, Macromedia Dreamweaver for quick Web Authoring, Sinhala and Tamil Unicode Fonts for Sinhala and Tamil Web Sites, Web Content Management System. This course is schedule to commence on Sunday 30 September 2012. Course Duration is 8 days and classed are conducted on Sundays from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm.

Main Course Contents of the Dynamic Web Application Development with PHP & MySQL” are installation and Configuration of LAMP & WAMP, PHP Language Basics and Functions, Strings, Arrays, Objects and Classes, Dynamic Graphics, Database Handling, Sessions and Cookies, Debugging, Use of Development tools and Software patterns, : Database Concepts, Data Types, Operators, Functions, Data Storage Engines and Table types, SQL, Privileges and Security, , Use of Database tools, Software design patterns, Individual Project. Participants will be given access to our Learning Management System (LMS). This course is also schedule to commence on Sunday 30 September 2012. Course Duration is 8 days and classed are conducted on Sundays from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm.

Embedded Systems Design & Development using Microcontroller Programming (including Robotics) is for those who need to learn Embedded Systems from the beginning to an advanced level. To follow this course participant should have basic programming knowledge. It is schedule to commence in Sunday 07 October 2012. Course Duration is 12 days and classes are conducted on Sundays from 1.00 pm to 6.00 pm.

After successful completion of this course students will be able to Specialize in Microcontroller Programming, Demonstrate the architecture of a Embedded System and Industry Automations, Explain core Embedded System concepts, Develop Embedded Applications by programming the PIC and Arduino Platforms, Write Embedded System programmes for various Industry Automation Tasks, Explain the Embedded Systems Technology Stack and how each component relates to the other, Build, compose, document, publish and consume Embedded Applications, Explain the security issues and implementation issues in Embedded Systems, Build Autonomous Mobile Robots.

University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) will be awarding a valuable certificate with local and global recognition to students who successfully complete these courses and the certificates comply with international standards and cannot be counterfeited.

In addition to these two courses, Computer Aided Drafting Using AutoCAD 2010, Upgrading and Maintenance of Personal Computer Environment, Java Application Development using JavaSE and Advanced Java Application Development using JavaEE are also schedule to commence in end of September and first week of October.

More details of these specialized, short-term courses could be obtained from e-mail csc@ucsc.lk or by accessing the UCSC web site www. ucsc.lk/training.