Web-centric Computing

Course

Administrative details

detailed list of Course section contents (below)

Announcements

Periodic notices

detailed list of Announcement section contents (below)

Materials

Learning aids provided by the professor

detailed list of Materials section contents (below)

Resources

Learning aids recommended by, but not provided by, the professor

detailed list of Resources section contents (below)

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Section: Course

Administrative Details

Subsections:

1. Syllabus
2. General Goals and Topics for the course
   • review of client/server architecture
   • brief summaries of selected topics
3. Goals for this version of the course
4. Lecture schedule
5. Current grades
6. Assignments
7. Test Information

Section: Announcements

Periodic notices

Subsections:

1. January
2. February
3. March
4. April

Section: Materials

Learning materials provided by professor

Subsections:

1. System Documentation
   1. Access Control Lists
   2. Debugging CGI programs
   3. Cookie Expiry Times
2. Examples (form access)
   • In a separate webpage: List of all examples (with notes)
   • Directories of client-side technologies
     1. XHTML
     2. CSS
     3. Javascript
     4. CGI forms
   • Directories of server-side technologies
     1. SSI
     2. CGI
     3. Java Servlets
   • Directories of miscellaneous technologies
     1. perl
     2. in-class
3. Demonstrations (links to external websites)
   1. CSS styles
   2. Some notable blogs
   3. Some notable wikis
   4. Sparrow Web: community shared web pages
4. Lecture Slides and Notes (The following slides and notes are in a separate webpage.)

   (Lecture schedule is in Course section)

   • Background
     • Historical background of The Web
     • Goals of The Web's creators
     • Audience on The Web
   • Client-side basics
     • HTML & XHTML
   • Advanced Client-side Topics
     • CSS
     • Accessibility issues
   • Server-side issues
     • The Web in network terms
     • Webserver implementation
     • Maintaining state
   • Server-side programming
     • Debugging CGI programs
     • Perl language
     • Servlets
     • Introduction to Databases and The Web
   • Proxies
   • The WWW in the world
     • security
     • search engines
     • metadata

Section: Resources

Learning resources that are not provided by the professor

Subsections:

1. Software
   1. Tools for constructing websites
   2. Tools for checking websites
   3. Tools for exploring network protocols
2. Readings
   1. Articles
      • About Metclafe's Law
      • About HTML and CSS rendering modes
      • About Google technology
      • About topics in security
      • About metadata and the future of the WWW
        • Semantic Web
        • RDF
      • About filtering
      • About hit counters
      • About processing forms (see also Security, above)
      • About accessibility issues
      • About AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
   2. Textbook websites
   3. Other references
3. Websites
   1. WWW in general
   2. HTML and XHTML
   3. XML
   4. Javascript
   5. CSS
   6. User inteface issues
   7. Perl
   8. SSI
   9. CGI
   10. Cookies
   11. Servlets
   12. HTTP
   13. Proxies
   14. Applications
   15. Cross-references

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CS 4173 Prof.:

J. Blustein <jamie@cs.dal.ca>