Lecture Notes

Web Essentials: Clients, Servers, and Communication

• Lecture slides (power point, pdf)
• An HTTP trace with two virtual hosts

Markup Languages: XHTML 1.0

• Lecture slides (power point, pdf)
• The XHTML namespace and the DTD (strict)
• An (X)HTML validator provided by the W3C

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

• Lecture slides (power point, pdf)
• A CSS validator provided by the W3C
• The CSS 2.1 reference, also provided by the W3C
• A list of color keyword names

Server-side programming: Java servlets

• Lecture slides (power point, pdf)
• The Servlet page of SUN

Client-side programming: JavaScript

• Lecture slides (power point, pdf)
• The Standard ECMA-262

The Document Object Model (DOM)

• Lecture slides (power point, pdf)
• The DOM page of the W3C

Representing Web Data: XML

• Lecture slides (power point, pdf)
• The XSL Transformations (XSLT) recommendation document of the W3C
• The XML Path Language (XPath) recommendation document of the W3C

Separating Programming and Presentation: JSP Technology

• Lecture slides (power point, pdf)
• The JavaServer Pages Technology (JSP) page of SUN

Web Services

• Lecture slides (power point, pdf)
• Other slides on web services (power point, pdf)

Laboratories

Monday January 18th

• Installing GlassFish. Using telnet, TCP, SMTP, HTTP
• Note that SITE seems to have put in place a few mechanisms to prevent "hacking" and spamming. These mechanisms are apparently triggered by some of the exercises, so you won't be able to do everything from within the university's network.... Here are some answers.

Monday January 26th

• HTML and XHTML basics
• The copy of the home page of the white house site in January 2009.

Monday February 1st

• CSS
• The CSS 2.1 reference

Monday February 8th and 22nd

• Java servlets

Monday March 1st and March 8th

• The JavaScript programming language

Monday March 15th and 22nd

• JavaScript and DOM, part one
• JavaScript and DOM, part two

Monday March 29th and April 5th

• XML