Programming the World Wide Web

by Sebesta, Robert W.

• ISBN13: 9780201704846
• ISBN10: 0201704846
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Addison Wesley

Summary

"Programming the World Wide Web "provides a comprehensive introduction to the programming tools and skills required for building and maintaining server sites on the Web. This book is intended for readers who have experience programming with an object-oriented language.

Author Biography

Robert W. Sebesta is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Table of Contents

Fundamentals	1	(24)
A Brief Introduction to the Internet	2	(3)
The World Wide Web	5	(1)
Web Browsers	6	(1)
Web Servers	7	(1)
Uniform Resource Locators	8	(2)
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions	10	(2)
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol	12	(3)
The Web Programmer's Toolbox	15	(5)
Summary	20	(1)
Review Questions	21	(2)
Exercises	23	(2)
Introduction to HTML	25	(38)
Origins and Evolution of HTML	26	(1)
Basic Syntax	27	(2)
Standard HTML Document Structure	29	(1)
Basic Text Formatting	30	(6)
Images	36	(3)
Hypertext Links	39	(4)
Lists	43	(4)
Tables	47	(6)
Frames	53	(5)
Summary	58	(2)
Review Questions	60	(1)
Exercises	61	(2)
Cascading Style Sheets	63	(22)
Introduction	64	(1)
Levels of Style Sheets	65	(1)
Style Specification Formats	66	(1)
Style Classes	67	(1)
Properties and Property Values	68	(11)
Color	79	(2)
The <span> and <div> Tags	81	(1)
Summary	82	(1)
Review Questions	83	(1)
Exercises	84	(1)
The Basics of Perl	85	(46)
Origins and Uses of Perl	86	(1)
Scalars and Their Operations	86	(7)
Assignment Statements and Simple Input and Output	93	(3)
Control Statements	96	(5)
Fundamentals of Arrays	101	(5)
Hashes	106	(1)
References	107	(1)
Functions	108	(5)
The pack and unpack Functions	113	(1)
Pattern Matching Using Regular Expressions	114	(7)
File Input and Output	121	(2)
An Example	123	(2)
Summary	125	(2)
Review Questions	127	(2)
Exercises	129	(2)
Using Perl for CGI Programming	131	(54)
The Common Gateway Interface	132	(1)
CGI Linkage	133	(3)
HTML for Forms	136	(11)
Query String Format	147	(3)
Decoding the Query String	150	(3)
An Example of Form Processing	153	(4)
The CGI.pm Module	157	(9)
A Survey Example	166	(12)
Animation Using CGI	178	(1)
Summary	178	(2)
Review Questions	180	(1)
Exercises	181	(4)
The Basics of JavaScript	185	(52)
Overview of JavaScript	186	(3)
Object Orientation and JavaScript	189	(1)
General Syntactic Characteristics	190	(2)
Primitives, Operations, and Expressions	192	(9)
Screen Output	201	(2)
Control Statements	203	(6)
Object Creation and Modification	209	(2)
Arrays	211	(5)
Functions	216	(6)
An Example	222	(2)
Constructors	224	(2)
Pattern Matching	226	(2)
Another Example	228	(2)
Summary	230	(1)
Review Questions	231	(2)
Exercises	233	(4)
JavaScript and HTML Documents	237	(28)
The JavaScript Execution Environment	238	(1)
The Document Object Model	239	(2)
Introduction to Events and Event Handling	241	(1)
Events, Attributes, and Tags	242	(5)
Using the load and unload Events	247	(1)
Event Handlers for Button Events	248	(5)
Checking Form Input	253	(7)
The navigator Object	260	(1)
Event Propagation	261	(1)
Summary	262	(1)
Review Questions	263	(1)
Exercises	264	(1)
Dynamic Documents with JavaScript	265	(28)
Browser Support for Dynamic Documents	266	(3)
Element Positioning	269	(6)
Moving Elements	275	(3)
Element Visibility	278	(2)
Dynamic Colors and Fonts	280	(3)
Dynamic Content	283	(3)
Stacking Elements	286	(4)
Summary	290	(1)
Review Questions	291	(1)
Exercises	291	(2)
Java Applets	293	(40)
Introduction	294	(2)
The Primary Applet Activities	296	(1)
The paint Method	297	(2)
The <object> Tag	299	(1)
Applet Parameters	300	(3)
Simple Graphics	303	(4)
Color	307	(1)
Interactive Applets	307	(12)
Concurrency in Java	319	(6)
Using Threads to Implement Animation	325	(3)
Summary	328	(2)
Review Questions	330	(1)
Exercises	331	(2)
Introduction to XML	333	(34)
Introduction	334	(2)
The Syntax of XML	336	(3)
XML Document Structure	339	(1)
Data Type Definitions	340	(11)
Namespaces	351	(2)
Displaying Raw XML Documents	353	(2)
Displaying XML Documents with CSS	355	(1)
XML Transformations and Style Sheets	356	(6)
Summary	362	(2)
Review Questions	364	(1)
Exercises	365	(2)
Introduction to Web Servers and Servlets	367	(44)
Web Server Operation	368	(1)
General Server Characteristics	369	(2)
Apache Under Unix	371	(5)
Overview of Servlets	376	(1)
Servlet Details	377	(4)
A Survey Example	381	(7)
Storing Information on Clients	388	(18)
Summary	406	(1)
Review Questions	407	(2)
Exercises	409	(2)
Database Access with Java	411	(30)
Relational Databases	412	(2)
An Introduction to the Structured Query Language	414	(7)
Architectures for Database Access	421	(2)
Approaches to Using JDBC	423	(2)
Java JDBC Applications	425	(5)
An Example JDBC Application	430	(3)
Metadata	433	(3)
JDBC and Servlets	436	(1)
Summary	437	(2)
Review Questions	439	(1)
Exercises	440	(1)
A A Brief Introduction to Java	441	(20)
Overview of Java	441	(3)
Data Types and Structures	444	(3)
Classes, Objects, and Methods	447	(5)
Interfaces	452	(1)
Exception Handling	453	(6)
Summary	459	(2)
Index	461