ASSESSING MARKET DEMAND FOR WEB PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES/TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

This paper assesses the market demand for the different programming languages and technologies covered in web programming courses. It will use the assessment of the market demand data to suggest content and technologies to teach at a web programming course at the department of Computer Science (COSC) at a university located in Western Pennsylvania. A faculty member at the Computer Science department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) has been collecting data about job demand for a number of languages and technologies used in Computer Science courses. In this paper we share the data gathered that is related to web programming, analysis of the data and implications for curriculum content in web programming courses. In order the give background information about this study, the paper begins by discussing the factors that influence the decision for selecting content to teach in web programming courses. It then explains that market demand is a factor that needs to be considered in selecting the same content for web programming courses and provide analysis for the collected data. The study last shares the experience of one faculty that is collecting the data and analyzing them to determine content and technologies to teach in his web programming course.