B211 Lecture Topic 4

Lecture Topic 4: Internet Application Development - Programming, Scripting and Mark-up Languages

Description

This topic deals with using different programming, scripting and mark-up languages to implement the software we see on the Internet. It will cover what the difference between the three classes of languages are, what different features are in different languages, and what impact the different languages are having on the Internet.

Lectures

Introduction to Programming, Scripting and Mark-up Languages

HTML, CSS and DHTML

Client-side programming: JavaScript, VBScript and DHTML

Web-Site Design and Web-Site Programming

XML

Server-side programming: Perl/CGI, PHP, ASP, JSP and ColdFusion

Programming on the Internet - Java and Microsoft .NET

Labs

Writing HTML documents

JavaScript Programming

PHP programming

Introduction to CGI scripting with Perl

Introduction to ASP scripts

Required Reading

Lecture notes

Textbook Web Programming by Chris Bates, Chapter 3: More HTML

Textbook Web Programming by Chris Bates, Chapter 15: Good Design

Textbook Web Programming by Chris Bates, Chapter 14: XML: Defining Data for Web Applications

Textbook Web Programming by Chris Bates, Chapter 9: CGI Scripting

Textbook Web Programming by Chris Bates, Chapter 13: Active Server Pages and Java

Supplementary Reading and Reference

See Readings page for online sites with tutorials for web developers.

W3C's activities on HTML, XHTML and XML.

Netscape's JavaScript Developer Central.

Sun Microsystems' Java resources.

Microsoft Developers Network.