Introduction to web programming for GIS applications

Introduction to web programming for GIS applications, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.28, with 103 lectures, 5 quizzes, based on 1506 reviews, and has 6839 subscribers.

You will learn about Understand the basic technologies used in web programming and how they interact to form a web application. You will gain basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, AJAX, SQL, and the PostgreSQL database. More specifically you will gain enough understanding of these technologies to be able to use Leaflet, Turf.js, and PostGIS to create a web-mapping application that is freely available to all. This course is ideal for individuals who are Two main groups of students will benefit from this course. First will be GIS users who are interested in understanding how to distribute and collect data using the internet. Second will be web developers interested in adding geospatial applications to their toolkit. It is particularly useful for Two main groups of students will benefit from this course. First will be GIS users who are interested in understanding how to distribute and collect data using the internet. Second will be web developers interested in adding geospatial applications to their toolkit.

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Summary

Title: Introduction to web programming for GIS applications

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.28

Number of Lectures: 103

Number of Quizzes: 5

Number of Published Lectures: 103

Number of Published Quizzes: 5

Number of Curriculum Items: 108

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 108

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Understand the basic technologies used in web programming and how they interact to form a web application. You will gain basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, AJAX, SQL, and the PostgreSQL database. More specifically you will gain enough understanding of these technologies to be able to use Leaflet, Turf.js, and PostGIS to create a web-mapping application that is freely available to all.

Who Should Attend

Two main groups of students will benefit from this course. First will be GIS users who are interested in understanding how to distribute and collect data using the internet. Second will be web developers interested in adding geospatial applications to their toolkit.

Target Audiences

Two main groups of students will benefit from this course. First will be GIS users who are interested in understanding how to distribute and collect data using the internet. Second will be web developers interested in adding geospatial applications to their toolkit.

“Excellent overview of web programming with Geospatial data. I highly recommend this for any beginners. For those with more experience designing web applications, there are a number of points addressed that often are overlooked in typical tutorials. This was a great dive into using open source tools and provides a great example of the tools in action.?” – Student Review on Udemy

“Thank you for this course! It fills a knowledge gap that I wasn’t even aware I had. As a GIS scientist without formal computer science training, a lot of what you are teaching here will come in handy.” – Student message on Udemy

“You truly have inspired me to take a step away and focus on learning more webGIS. Thanks!!” – Student comment on Twitter

“Michael is an incredibly knowledgeable instructor who assumes no prior knowledge. The course content builds up from some very basic coding practices to complex interaction between client and database via a server. Although it was not expected that the exercises were completed I did indeed follow along and now have a fully-functional webapp that I can modify to suit my needs. For an introduction, this course covers an incredibly wide range of concepts covering not only the display and processing of spatial data but also some internet security measures and even a little history thrown in which makes it much easier to understand the possibilities and limitations of Web GIS. I am thoroughly looking forward to starting Michael’s Leaflet course.” – Student Review on Udemy

“The course is exactly what I need not some copy the script and modify, but rather an understanding of what the process is. At this point, it sounds like a great overview and I am equally impressed with the background and teaching style of the instructor.” – Student Review on Udemy

“Great course does exactly what it says on the tin! Easily digested bite sized lectures that are clear and concise and always put the learning into a geospatial perspective, just what I was looking for.” – Student review on Udemy

This course is oriented towards achieving a conceptual understanding of how web technologies work together to form a web application that can be used to distribute, collect, or analyze?geospatial data.

The focus will be on understanding concepts. ?You will not have to install any software on your computer. ?You will not be asked to follow along step-by-step. Instead the goal?will be to provide the background information necessary to understand how the internet works, which technologies you really need to understand and when to use them. ?We will also explore additional technologies that you may want to explore further as your understanding and needs grow.

We will be using readily available open source software so you will be able to create web maps without spending any money. The concepts you will learn, however, will be equally valid if you have access to commercial GIS software and web servers.

My intention is to provide the information that I wish I had available before I began my journey into the world of geospatial web development. ?I spent a lot of time trying to put together the big picture from the detailed information that was available and I wasted a lot of time pursuing technologies that really were not necessary. ?My hope is to help you navigate the world of web development more efficiently than I did and that?after taking this course you will be better prepared to take more detailed courses from myself or others.?

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: My Background

Lecture 3: Course Philosophy and Goals

Lecture 4: Client – Server Architechture

Lecture 5: Components of a web application

Lecture 6: Introduction to client side programming

Chapter 2: HTML – Structure and content

Lecture 1: The structure of an HTML document

Lecture 2: Basic HTML Tags

Lecture 3: Links and finding reference material on the internet

Lecture 4: Additional HTML tags

Lecture 5: HTML Tables

Lecture 6: HTML Forms part 1

Lecture 7: HTML Forms Part 2

Chapter 3: CSS – Making your document look good

Lecture 1: Introduction to CSS

Lecture 2: Where CSS lives

Lecture 3: CSS precedence

Lecture 4: CSS Pseudo-selectors

Lecture 5: Colors in CSS

Lecture 6: Uses of CSS

Chapter 4: The Document Object Model and Events

Lecture 1: Intro to the DOM

Lecture 2: What is an object

Lecture 3: Abstraction and Instantiation

Lecture 4: Objects in computer programs

Lecture 5: Going from HTML to the DOM

Lecture 6: Intro to Events

Chapter 5: JavaScript and JQuery

Lecture 1: Intro to JavaScript

Lecture 2: Accessing the DOM from JavaScript – Part 1

Lecture 3: Accessing the DOM from JavaScript – Part 2

Lecture 4: Viewing objects in Developer tools

Lecture 5: Event Handlers part 1

Lecture 6: Event Handlers Part 2

Lecture 7: Event Handlers Part 3

Lecture 8: Variables

Lecture 9: DOM manipulation example 2

Lecture 10: Calculations in javascript

Lecture 11: Validation in Javascript Part 1

Lecture 12: The problem with alerts

Lecture 13: Validation Part 2

Lecture 14: More DOM manipulation

Lecture 15: Loops in JavaScript

Lecture 16: Arrays in Javascript

Lecture 17: Objects and JSON

Chapter 6: Frameworks, Libraries, APIs, and Plug-Ins

Lecture 1: Introduction to Frameworks, libraries, APIs, and plug-ins

Lecture 2: Bootstrap – Introduction

Lecture 3: Bootstrap – Demonstration

Lecture 4: jQuery – Introduction

Lecture 5: jQuery – Selections

Lecture 6: jQuery – Methods

Lecture 7: Geospatial data on the web

Lecture 8: GeoJSON

Lecture 9: Mapping Libraries and APIs

Chapter 7: Client-side example. Putting it all together.

Lecture 1: Code Editors

Lecture 2: First Map – HTML & CSS

Lecture 3: First Map – JavaScript

Lecture 4: First Map – Add Custom Data

Lecture 5: First Map – Respond to user events

Lecture 6: First Map – Adding geoJSON data

Lecture 7: First Map – Build HTML from geoJSON

Lecture 8: First Map – Spatial Analysis with Turf.js

Lecture 9: First Map – Creating geoJSON with QGIS

Lecture 10: First Map – Summary

Chapter 8: Introduction to Server Side technologies.

Lecture 1: Introduction to server side technology

Lecture 2: Introduction to Databases

Lecture 3: Geospatial data in databases

Lecture 4: Introduction to servers

Lecture 5: Common Frustrations

Chapter 9: SQL

Lecture 1: Introduction to SQL

Lecture 2: SQL Create statement

Lecture 3: SQL Insert Statement

Lecture 4: SQL Select statement

Lecture 5: What can I do with a SQL Statement?

Lecture 6: SQL Update and Delete Statements

Chapter 10: PHP & AJAX

Lecture 1: Introduction to PHP

Lecture 2: Arrays in PHP

Lecture 3: Communication with the server – GET and POST

Lecture 4: Conditional Statements and Loops in PHP

Lecture 5: SQL Injection and PHP Data Objects

Lecture 6: Accessing the database in PHP

Lecture 7: Limitations of PHP and addressing them with AJAX

Lecture 8: Introduction to AJAX – Part 1

Lecture 9: Introduction to AJAX – Part 2

Lecture 10: Returning JSON data with AJAX

Lecture 11: Returning spatial data as GeoJSON – Part 1

Lecture 12: Returning spatial data as GeoJSON – Part 2

Chapter 11: PostGIS

Lecture 1: Introduction to PostGIS

Instructors

Michael Miller
GIS Programming

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 15 votes

2 stars: 19 votes

3 stars: 124 votes

4 stars: 495 votes

5 stars: 854 votes

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