Introduction and challenges

At the end of this session, you should be familiar with:

• The relevance and importance of the course
• Objectives, outcomes, expectations of prior knowledge
• Tools and resources

At the end of this session, you should be able to:

• Describe some challenges in creating a dynamic website
• List the parts of a business model canvas

Full slides and detailed notes

The videos in this course provide a high-level overview of the concepts and theory.

In the hands on activities, you will translate those ideas into working code.

Motivation: why does this course matter?

If you would like to get a bit more of a taste of what we are going to cover in the course, then read Chapter 1 of the Java EE 7 tutorial:

https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/tutorial/overview.htm

Note: You will need to click Next Page 8 times to finish all of the first chapter.

There is a lot packed into this course, but don't worry: we will gradually build up to it. You may not understand everything in the overview, but by the end you will be an expert!

To dive a little bit deeper into using the NetBeans IDE, you might consider watching some of the videos/tutorials at Netbeans.org: https://netbeans.org/kb/index.html

• Hands-on practical exercises
• Challenge problems
• Sample solutions