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Web-centric Computing

Lecture Slides

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1. Background

   Overview

   1. What Web-Centric Computing Is lecture slides
   2. The Web Graph lecture slides
      • Web Graph slides in handout form

   History and Goals

   1. Historical background to the WWW lecture notes
      • See also video of 1968 demonstration of the first working computerized hypertext system (see especially clip 8, using file lists and graphics). That example continues the shopping list illustration that began in clip 5.
   2. WWW Goals lecture notes
   3. Audience on the Web

2. Client-side Basics

   XHTML Basics

   1. Basic HTML lecture slides
      1. Basic HTML slides in handout form
      2. Example of Graceful Degradation in XHTML
         1. Part 1 of Example of Graceful Degradation in XHTML
         2. Part 2 of Example of Graceful Degradation in XHTML
            • appendix: example of graceful degredation from HTML 4.01 standard
         3. Part 3 of Example of Graceful Degradation in XHTML
         1. XHTML-doc-structure.ps (also )
   2. HTML 4 Tables lecture notes

3. Advanced Client-side Topics

   1. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

      1. Essential CSS lecture slides
         1. Essential CSS lecture slides in handout form
         2. CSS2 handout
         3. CSS Level 1 and CSS-Positioning Reference Sheet to accompany Ian Graham's The XHTML Language and Design Sourcebook
            • (local copy of sheet, , 07 Nov. 2000 version)
         4. Daniel Greene's CSS Font Properties Test
      2. Detailed CSS lecture slides
         • Detailed CSS slides in handout form

   2. Accessible Markup

      1. Layout: Tables and CSS documents (at U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, see sources list webpage)
      2. Redesigning Web Pages to be more Accessible to People with Disabilities (at U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, see sources list webpage)

4. Server-side Issues

   1. WWW Basics lecture slides
   2. Planning, configuring, running, and maintaining a webserver
   3. Saving State on the WWW
      • Saving State on the WWW slides in handout form
      • See also Servlets slides, below

5. Server-side Programming

   1. Basics

      1. Inside The WWW Server (an animated lecture)
         • Handout for Inside The Server
         • See also images at InsideTheServer directory
      2. Server-Side Programming lecture
         • Server-side programming slides in handout form

   2. The Perl Programming Language

      1. Perl 5 handout
      2. See also:
         • Debugging CGIs in System Documentation part of these Materials
         • Websites in the Resources section

   3. Java Servlets

      1. Servlets lecture
         • Servlet slides in handout form
         • See also Saving State slides, above

   4. Database Basics

      1. Introduction to Web Databases
         • Introduction to Web Databases (in handout form)
      2. See also:
         • Database-driven websites, below, and
         • Yeming Hu's tutorial about the database interface (from 2007), in the Resources section

6. Proxies

   1. Proxy Servers lecture
      • See also
        • Readings about filtering proxies (in the resources section)
        • Websites about proxies (in the resources section)

7. WWW Applications

   1. Detailed Overview of Security and Privacy lecture
      • Overview of Security and Privacy (in handout form)
   2. Search Engines lecture
      • Google spoofed
        1. Google results list
        2. First hit
        3. Official Google Blog: Googlebombing failure by Marissa Mayer (Director of Google's Consumer Web Products) at blogspot.com
   3. Metadata lecture
      • See also
        • readings in the resources section,
        • proxy lecture above, and
        • metadata and application technologies websites in the resources section
   4. Database-driven websites
      • See Also:
        • Database Basics, above
   5. Web Services and Middleware
      1. Web Services Introduction: Middleware
      2. Web Services
      3. Scan of handwritten Ajax notes

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See Also

• Handouts
• Notes (directory)
• Summaries of selected topics

Source Credits

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Friday, 30-Mar-2007 13:09:30 ADT

CS 4173 Prof.:

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