IT 3501 Web Development Techniques Programming Optional

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IT 3501 Web DevelopmentTechniques
Programming(Optional)

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Web address of BIT web sitehttp//www.ict.cmb.ac.
lk/bit.htm

• E-mail address
• IT 3501 - wdt_at_ict.cmb.ac.lk

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Brief Syllabus
Brief Syllabus

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Pre-requisites..?

• Not really except, some experience in
  Programming, O/S, Scripting
• will be an advantage

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• Overall Objectives
• Describe the foundations of
• the design of the Internet and
• its architecture

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• Communicating with hosts over Internet
• Error tolerance
• DNS and IP addresses
• 7 layer OSI and 4 layer Internet
• Internet Clients/ Servers (H/W S/W)
• How client/server model works?
• Configuring a PC for the Internet
• Use of O/S tools on Internet related tasks (IP,
  Domain name, routes etc)

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• Hypertext and Hypermedia ?
• Use of Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
  Plug-ins
• HTTP and HTML providing a web interface
• Uniform Resource Locators ?
• History of the Web and W3C

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• Overall Objectives contd..
• Authoring Web pages
• Mark-up languages
• HTML, SGML etc.

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• Mark-up
• Structural
• HTML
• Stylistic
• Internal styles
• External styles (CSS)
• Descriptive
• Use of meta-tags

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• Use of
• Lists
• Relative and Absolute links
• Images
• Tables
• Frames (inc. nested frames)
• Forms (designing/ processing)

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• Processing on the Web
• Client-side
• Server-side

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• Client-side programming
• JavaScripts
• Handling of forms
• Mouse sensitive events

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• Server-side Programming
• Common Gateway Interface

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Writing CGI Scripts with PERL 5
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• CGI Programming
• Configuring HTTP server for CGI
• Executing external programs
• Forms handling
• Dynamic Web pages
• e.g Hot areas
• Linking Databases to the Web
• Integrating other services

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Major Topics

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What is not covered

• Java on the Web

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• Related modules in Year 3
• Internet application Development
• Programming concepts
• Distributed computing concepts
• XML
• Java

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Opportunities

• Entry level Web developer..
• Year 3 module on
• Internet application development

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Main Readings Beginning XHTML by Frank
Boumpery, Cassandra Greer, Dave Raggett, Jenny
Raggett, Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer Ted
Wugofski, WROX press (Indian Shroff Publishes
SPD) 1st edition , ISBN81-7366-164-2, 2000

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Main Readings contd.. HTML XHTML The
Definitive Guide by Chuck Musciano, Bill
Kennedy 4th edition ,2000

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Main Readings contd.. XHTML Black Book by
Steven Holzner ,2000
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• Supplementary Readings
• CGI Programming
• on the World Wide Web.
• OReilly Associates.

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• Supplementary Readings contd..
• JavaScript Unleashed
• 3rd Edition
• by Wagner

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• Supplementary Readings contd..
• Webmaster in a Nutshell (2nd Ed.)
• Stephen Spainhour Robert Eckstein.
• OReilly Associates. 1999

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• Supplementary Readings contd..
• Dynamic Web Publishing Unleashed
• by Powers

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• Supplementary Readings contd..
• Unlocking Active Server Pages
• by Christop H. Wille

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Examination Criteria Examination Paper will
consist of two parts. Part 1 2 Hour paper
consisting of MCQs Part 2 1 Hour Paper
consisting of Structured Questions

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• Platform
• Hardware
• Any standard PC (Pentium)
• Software 
• Windows 2000/NT  
• Linux  
• Apache, Microsoft IIS
• Perl 5.0 (WinPerl) etc.

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