Recent Trends in Web Programming
On March 16th, the College of Engineering and Information Technology conducted an interactive virtual workshop in collaboration with Al-Balqa Applied University in Jordan on the “Recent Trends in Web Programming”. The workshop was organized by Dr. Mohammed Al-Betar, Associate Professor at Ajman University, in collaboration with Dr.Tamara Alqablan, Lecturer at Al-Balqa Applied University. Around sixty students from Al-Balqa Applied University and Ajman University have attended this workshop. Dr. Tamara presented the latest trends in Web Programming along with an introduction to the Bootstrap framework for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by giving a simple demo on how to implement bootstrap with websites. Dr. Mohammed Al-Betar also discussed with the attendees the challenges that might be faced in developing a website.
In the second part of the workshop, Ms. Nabia Khalid, Assistant Instructor at Ajman University, shared her experience and views regarding Bootstrap implementation and the benefits that students praised in applying it in the websites created during their practical classes. An interactive session was held at the end of this workshop where students shared their perceptions by discussing various tag and CSS properties that helped them in their web development projects. All attendees were also provided with a Certificate of Participation at the end of the day.
“Recent trends in web systems and bootstrap was truly an eye-opening workshop. It was an innovating workshop that highlighted key points on building responsive webpage(s) with the help of user-friendly tools like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.” Ardra Sanjiv Kumar 201710107 (Computer Engineering student at Ajman University).
“The workshop gave us an overview about bootstrap, and the session was conducted in an interactive manner. It was a good experience to get into a session with faculty and students from the international university”. Muhammad Yousif Jawaid 20191078 (IT/Networking & Security student at Ajman University).
