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Reference Books

If you want more reference material than is included in the list of websites in the resources section then you might find this list of textbooks the professor uses helpful. Remember that some of the books and articles listed here are on reserve at the Killam library.

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Web Technologies in General

XHTML 1.0 Web Development Sourcebook: Building Better Sites and Applications

by Ian S. Graham

©2000 by the author.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

ISBN 0-471-37486-5.
XHTML 1.0 Language and Design Sourcebook: The Next Generation of HTML

by Ian S. Graham

©2000 by the author.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

ISBN 0-471-37485-7.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)

XHTML 1.0 W3C Recommendation
HTML 4.01 W3C Recommendation
XHTML 1.0 Language and Design Sourcebook: The Next Generation of HTML

by Ian S. Graham

©2000 by the author.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

ISBN 0-471-37485-7.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Cascading Style Sheets: Designing For The Web (2nd edition)

by H. W. Lie and B. Bos.

©1999 Pearson Education Limited.

Published by Addison-Wesley.

ISBN 0-201-59625-3.

(This is a great book!)

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

HTTP: The Definitive Guide

by David Gourley and Brian Totty (with Marjorie Sayer, Sailu Reddy, and Anshu Aggarwal).

©2002 by O'Reilly and Associates.

ISBN 1-56592-509-2.
Web Proxy Servers

by Ari Luotonen.

©1998 Netscape Communications Corporation.

Published by Prentice Hall PTR.

ISBN 0-13-680612-0.
XHTML 1.0 Language and Design Sourcebook: The Next Generation of HTML

by Ian S. Graham

©2000 by the author.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

ISBN 0-471-37485-7.
Web Protocols and Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traffic Measurement

by Balachander Krishnamurthy and Jennifer Rexford

©2001 by AT&T Corp.

Published by Addison-Wesley, Inc.

ISBN 0-201-71088-9.

(This may be the only book that can compete with Ian S. Graham's XHTML Design book for the network part of the WWW that CS 4173 covers. It is detailed and lucid.)

Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm: The Standard for Building Web Scripts

by Lincoln Stein

©1998 by the author

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

ISBN 0-471-24744-8.
XHTML 1.0 Language and Design Sourcebook: The Next Generation of HTML

by Ian S. Graham

©2000 by the author.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

ISBN 0-471-37485-7.
Perl for the Web

by Chris Radcliff

©2002 New Riders Publishing

ISBN 0-7357-1114-3

I haven't started to use it yet, but it looks like this book has good coverage of advanced applications of Perl to the WWW

Perl 5

Programming Perl (3rd edition)

by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, & Jon Orwant.

©2000 by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc.

ISBN 0-596-00027-8.
The Perl Cookbook

by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.

©1998 by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc.

ISBN 1-56592-243-3.
Network Programming in Perl

by Lincoln D. Stein.

©2001 by Addison-Wesley

ISBN 0-201-61571-1.
Perl 5 Pocket Reference (2nd edition)

by Johan Vromans.

©1998 by the author.

Published by O'Reilly & Associates.

ISBN 1-56592-495-9).
Various articles in The Perl Journal (ISSN 1087-903X).
Perl: The programmer's companion

by Nigel Chapman.

©1997 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

ISBN 0-471-97563-X.

Servlets

Core Web Programming (2nd edition)

by Marty Hall and Larry Brown

©2001 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Published by Prentice Hall

ISBN 0-13-089793-0

Domain Object Model (DOM)

The Web Wizard's Guide to DHTML and CSS

by Steven G. Estrella

©2003 (Addison Wesley)

ISBN 0-201-75834-2

I haven't started to use it yet, but it looks like this book has good coverage of applications of Javascript/JScript to the DOM.

Web Services / Web 2.0 / Asychronous JS + XML

Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications

by Gustavo Alonso, Fabio Casati, Harumi Kuno, and Vijay Machiraju

©2004 (Springer-Verlag)

ISBN 3-540-44008-9

Wow! I never thought I'd find a book from Springer that was good and good to teach from. This is an outstandingly clear and appropriately detailed text.
Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Applications

Joshua Eichorn

©2007 (Pearson Education, Inc.)

ISBN 0-13-221635-3

I've only read chapter one so far but this looks to be a more than usually thorough treatment with many practical examples.

The Web Graph

The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information

by Bernardo A. Huberman

©2001 (MIT Press)

ISBN 0-262-08303-5

Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms

by Pierre Baldi, Paolo Fransconi, and Padhraic Smyth

©2003 by the authors

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

ISBN 0-470-84906-1