Web Development BSc(Hons)

1st Year

You’ll begin with a practical introduction to programming, computer technology, and computer science principles. Working in a multidisciplinary team, you’ll then learn Agile principles, pipelines, and processes to deliver a bespoke, interactive website for a game under development by other Games Academy students. You’ll also complete an individual creative computing project by learning about physical computing in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT).

Modules

• Development Principles
• Creative Computing
• Principles of Computing
• Individual Creative Computing Project
• Multidisciplinary Development Practice

2nd Year

You’ll learn how to leverage back-end web technologies likes database systems and servers, before studying front-end development and implementing an original web application. You’ll typically concentrate on areas like functional coherence, accessibility, usability and aesthetics, further supported by distributed systems.

Modules

• Web Technologies
• Web Application Design
• Specialisms in Creative Computing
• Mathematics for 3D Worlds & Simulations
• Distributed Systems

Optional placement year

• You’ll gain real-world, hands-on experience in this optional year-long placement.

3rd & 4th Year

You’ll choose and explore a web development specialism through a practice-based research project, with supervision from a subject-matter expert. Growing your knowledge of DevOps in a cloud computing context for cloud orchestration, you’ll engage in collective innovation as an exercise in digital entrepreneurship and apply this knowledge to a team-based major web development project.

Modules

• Cloud Computing
• Digital Innovation
• Major Web Development Project
• Research & Development: Practice
• Research & Development: Dissertation