CISC474, Reading Notes for Sebesta,
Programming The World Wide Web, 3rd Edition
Reading notes by Phill Conrad, Asst. Professor, CIS Dept. University of Delaware
1.1 A Brief Introduction to the Internet
1.1.2 What the Internet Is
1.1.3 Internet Protocol Addresses
1.1.4 Domain Names
1.2 The World Wide Web
1.2.2 Web or Internet?
1.3 Web Browsers
1.4 Web Servers
1.4.1 Web Server Operation
1.4.2 General Server Characteristics
1.5 Uniform Resource Locators
1.5.1 URL Formats
1.6 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
1.6.1 Type Specifications
1.6.2 Experimental Document Types
1.7 The Hypertext Transfer Protocol
1.7.1 The Request Phase
1.7.2 The Response Phase
1.8 The Web Programmer's Toolbox
1.8.1 Overview of XHTML
1.8.2 Tools for Creating XHTML Documents
1.8.3 Plug-ins and Filters
1.8.4 Overview of XML
1.8.5 Overview of JavaScript
1.8.6 Overview of Java
1.8.7 Overview of Perl
1.8.8 Overview of PHP
1.9 Summary
1.10 Review Questions
1.11 Exercises
2.1 Origins and Evolution of HTML and XHTML
2.1.1 Versions of HTML and XHTML
2.1.2 HTML versus XHTML
2.2 Basic Syntax
2.3 Standard XHTML Document Structure
2.4 Basic Text Markup
2.4.1 Paragraphs
2.4.2 XHTML Document Validation
2.4.3 Line Breaks
2.4.5 Block Quotations
2.4.6 Font Styles and Sizes
2.4.7 Character Entitites
2.4.8 Horizontal Rules
2.4.9 The meta Element
2.5 Images
2.5.1 Image Formats
2.5.2 The <img /> tag
2.6 Hypertext Links
2.6.2 Targets within Documents
2.6.3 Using LInks
2.7.1 Unordered Lists
2.7.2 Ordered Lists
2.7.3 Definition Lists
2.8 Tables
2.8.1 Basic Table Tags
2.8.2 The rowspan and colspan Attributes
2.8.3 The align and valign Attributes
2.8.4 The cellpadding and cellspacing Attributes
2.8.5 Table Sections
2.9.1 The <form> Tag
2.9.2 The <input> Tag
2.9.3 The <select> Tag
2.9.4 The <textarea> Tag
2.9.5 The Submit and Reset Buttons
2.9.6 A Complete Form Example
2.11 Syntactic Differences Between HTML and XHTML
2.13 Review Questions
2.14 Exercises
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Levels of Style Sheets
3.3 Style Specification Formats
3.4 Selector Formats
3.4.1 Simple Selector Forms
3.4.2 Class Selectors
3.4.3 Generic Selectors
3.4.4 id Selectors
3.4.5 Pseudo Classes
3.5 Property Value Forms
3.6 Font Properties
3.6.1 Font Families
3.6.2 Font Sizes
3.6.3 Font Styles
3.6.4 Font Weights
3.6.5 Font Shorthands
3.6.6 Text Decoration
3.7 List Properties
3.8.1 Color Groups
3.8.2 Color Properties
3.9 Alignment of Text
3.10 The Box Model
3.10.2 Margins and Padding
3.11 Background Images
3.12 The <span> and <div> Tags
3.14 Review Questions
3.15 Exercises
4.1 Overview of JavaScript
4.1.2 JavaScript and Java
4.1.3 Uses of JavaScript
4.1.4 Event-Driven Computation
4.1.5 Browsers and XHTML/JavaScript Documents
4.2 Object Orientation and JavaScript
4.2.1 JavaScript Objects
4.3 General Syntactic Characteristics
4.4 Primitives, Operations, and Expressions
4.4.1 Primitive Types
4.4.2 Numeric and String Literals
4.4.3 Other Primitive Types
4.4.4 Declaring Variables
4.4.5 Numeric Operators
4.4.6 The Math Object
4.4.7 The Number Object
4.4.8 The String Catenation Operator
4.4.9 Implicit Type Conversions
4.4.10 Explicit Type Conversions
4.4.11 String Properties and Methods
4.4.12 The typeof Operator
4.4.13 Assignment Statements
4.4.14 The Date Object
4.5 Screen Output and Keyboard Input
4.6 Control Statements
4.6.1 Control Expresssions
4.6.2 Selection Statements
4.6.3 The switch Statement
4.6.4 Loop Statements
4.7 Object Creation and Modification
4.8 Arrays
4.8.1 Array Object Creation
4.8.2 Characteristics of Array Objects
4.8.3 Array Methods
4.9 Functions
4.9.1 Fundamentals
4.9.2 Local Variables
4.9.3 Parameters
4.9.4 The sort Method, Revisited
4.10 An Example
4.11 Constructors
4.12 Pattern Matching Using Regular Expressions
4.12.1 Character and Character-Class Patterns
4.12.3 Pattern Modifiers
4.12.4 Other Pattern-Matching Methods of String
4.13 Another Example
4.14 Errors in Scripts
4.16 Review Questions
4.17 Exercises
5.1 The JavaScript Execution Environment
5.2 The Document Object Model
5.3 Element Access in JavaScript
5.4 Events and Event Handling
5.4.1 Basic Concepts of Event Handling
5.4.2 Events, Attributes and Tags
5.5 Handling Events from Body Elements
5.6 Handling Events from Button Elements
5.6.1 Plain Buttons
5.6.2 Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
5.7 Handling Events from Text Boxes and Passwords
5.7.1 The focus event
5.7.2 Validating Form Input
5.8 The DOM 2 Event Model
5.8.1 Event Propagation
5.8.2 Event Handler Registration
5.8.3 An Example of the DOM 2 Event Model
5.9 The navigator Object
5.11 Review Questions
5.12 Exercises
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Element Positioning
6.2.1 Absolute Positioning
6.2.2 Relative Positioning
6.2.3 Static Positioning
6.3 Moving Elements
6.4 Element Visibility
6.5 Changing Colors and Fonts
6.5.1 Changing Colors
6.5.2 Changing Fonts
6.6 Dynamic Content
6.7 Stacking Elements
6.8 Locating the Mouse Cursor
6.9 Reacting to a Mouse Click
6.10 Slow Movement of Elements
6.11 Dragging and Dropping Elements
6.13 Review Questions
6.14 Exercises
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Primary Applet Activities
7.3 The paintComponent Method
7.4 The <object> Tag
7.5 Applet Parameters
7.6 Simple Graphics
7.6.1 The Coordinate System
7.6.3 Rectangles
7.8 Interactive Applets
7.8.1 Java Swing GUI Components
7.8.2 The Java Event Model
7.9 Summary
7.10 Review Questions
7.11 Exercises
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The Syntax of XML
8.3 XML Document Structure
8.4 Document Type Definitions
8.4.1 Declaring Elements
8.4.2 Declaring Attributes
8.4.3 Declaring Entitites
8.4.4 A Sample DTD
8.4.5 Internal and External DTDs
8.5 Namespaces
8.6 XML Schemas
8.6.1 Schema Fundamentals
8.6.2 Defining a Schema
8.6.3 Defining a Schema Instance
8.6.4 An Overview of Data Types
8.6.5 Simple Types
8.6.6 Complex Types
8.6.7 Validating Instances of Schemas
8.7 Displaying Raw XML Documents
8.8 Displaying XML Documents with CSS
8.9 XSLT Style Sheets
8.9.1 Overview of XSLT
8.9.2 XSL Transformations for Presentation
8.10 XML Processors
8.10.1 The Purposes of XML Processors
8.10.2 The SAX Approach
8.10.3 The DOM Approach
8.11 Web Services
8.13 Review Questions
8.14 Exercises
9.1 Origins and Uses of Perl
9.2 Scalars and Their Operations
9.2.1 Numerics and String Literals
9.2.2 Scalar Variables
9.2.3 Numeric Operators
9.2.4 String Operations
9.2.5 String Functions
9.3 Assignment Statements and Simple Input and Output
9.3.1 Assignment Statements
9.3.2 Keyboard Input
9.3.3 Screen Output
9.4 Control Statements
9.4.1 Control Expressions
9.4.2 Selection and Loop Statements
9.5 Fundamentals of Arrays
9.5.1 List Literals
9.5.3 The foreach Statement
9.5.4 Built In Functions for Arrays and Lists
9.5.5 An Example
9.6 Hashes
9.7 References
9.8 Functions
9.8.1 Fundamentals
9.8.2 Local Variables
9.8.3 Parameters
9.8.4 The sort Function, Revisited
9.8.5 An Example
9.9 Pattern Matching
9.9.1 The Basics of Patterns and Pattern Matching
9.9.2 Remembering Matches
9.9.3 Substitutions
9.9.4 The Transliterate Operator
9.10 File Input and Output
9.11 An Example
9.13 Review Questions
9.14 Exercises
10.1 The Common Gateway Interface
10.2 CGI Linkage
10.3 Query String Format
10.4 The CGI.pm Module
10.4.1 Common CGI.pm Functions
10.4.2 A Complete Form Example
10.5 A Survey Example
10.8 Review Questions
10.9 Exercises
11.1 Overview of Servlets
11.2 Servlet Details
11.3 A Survey Example
11.4 Storing Information on Clients
11.4.2 Session Tracking
11.5 Java Server Pages
11.5.1 Motivations for JSP
11.5.2 JSP Documents
11.5.4 Expression Language
11.5.5 JSTL Control Action Elements
11.7 Review Questions
11.8 Exercises
12.1 Origins and Uses of PHP
12.2 Overview of PHP
12.3 General Syntactic Characteristics
12.4 Primitives, Operations, and Expressions
12.4.2 Integer Type
12.4.5 Boolean Type
12.4.6 Arithmetic Operators and Expressions
12.4.7 String Operations
12.4.8 Scalar Type Conversions
12.4.9 Assignment Operators
12.6 Control Statements
12.6.1 Relational Operators
12.6.2 Boolean Operators
12.6.3 Selection Statements
12.6.4 Loop Statements
12.6.5 Alternative Compound Delimiters
12.7.1 Array Creation
12.7.2 Accessing Array Elements
12.7.3 Dealing with Arrays
12.7.4 Sequential Access To Array Elements
12.7.5 Sorting Arrays
12.8 Functions
12.8.1 General Characterstics of Functions
12.8.3 The Scope of Variables
12.8.4 The LIfetime of Variables
12.9 Pattern Matching
12.10 Form Handling
12.11.1 Opening and Closing Files
12.11.2 Reading from a File
12.11.3 Writing to a File
12.13 Session Tracking
12.15 Review Questions
13.1 Overview of the .NET Framework
13.1.2 The Common Language Runtime (CLR)
13.1.3 .NET Languages
13.1.4 The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)
13.2 Overview of C#
13.2.2 Primitive Types and Expressions
13.2.3 Data Structures
13.2.4 Control Statements
13.2.5 Classes Methods and Structures
13.2.8 Program Structure
13.2.9 File Storage For Programs
13.3 Introduction to ASP.NET
13.3.2 ASP.NET Documents
13.3.3 Code-Behind Files
13.4 ASP.NET Controls
13.4.1 HTML Controls
13.4.2 Life Cycle of a Simple ASP.NET Document
13.4.3 Page-Level Events
13.4.4 Control Events
13.4.5 Web Controls
13.4.6 Creating Control Elements with Code
13.4.7 Response Output for Controls
13.4.9 Validation Controls
13.5 Web Services
13.5.1 Constructing Web Services
13.5.2 Advertising Web Services
13.7 Review Questions
13.8 Exercises
14.1 Relational Databases
14.2 An Introduction to the Structured Query Language
14.2.1 The CREATE TABLE SQL Command
14.2.2 The INSERT SQL Command
14.2.3 The SELECT SQL Command
14.2.4 The UPDATE SQL Command
14.2.5 The DELETE SQL Command
14.2.6 The DROP SQL Command
14.3 Architectures for Database Access
14.3.1 Client/Server Architecture
14.3.2 Database Access with Embedded SQL
14.3.3 The Microsoft Access Architecture
14.3.4 The Perl DBI/DBD Architecture
14.3.5 PHP and Database Access
14.3.6 The Java JDBC Architecture
14.4 The MySQL Database System
14.5 Database Access with Perl and MySQL
14.5.1 The DBI Module
14.6 Database Access with PHP and MySQL
14.6.1 Potential Problems with Special Characters
14.6.2 Connecting to MySQL and Selecting a Database
14.6.3 Requesting MySQL Operations
14.6.4 A PHP/MySQL Example
14.7 Database Access with JDBC and MySQL
14.7.1 Approaches to Using JDBC Outside the Web
14.7.2 JDBC and MySQL
14.7.3 A Complete JDBC/MySQL Example
14.7.5 JDBC and Servlets
14.9 Review Questions
A.1 Overview of Java
A.2 Data Types and Structures
A.3 Classes, Objects, and Methods
A.4 Interfaces
A.5 Exception Handling
A.5.1 Classes of Exceptions
A.5.2 Exception Handlers
A.5.3 Binding Exception to Handlers
A.5.4 Exception Propogation
A.5.5 The throws clause
A.5.6 An Example
A.6 Summary
