CSCI A348/A548
Mastering the World-Wide Web

Courtesy Arijit Sengupta

A note on deficiencies: Students beginning A348 are expected to have a basic working familiarity with Unix, the Internet, the World-Wide Web and HTML. The resources below include ones useful for students needing to eliminate any deficiencies in these areas. Working through them should help bring you up to speed and this should be done as early in the course as possible. Most bookstores have many books on these topics as well. The course teaching staff and your fellow students are available for further assistance.

A348

• Spring '96 (Steve Kinzler)
• 1996-97 (Rick McMullen)
• 1997-98 (Arijit Sengupta)
• Fall 1998's Course

Misc.

• Java 3D 1.1 Beta 1 now available for free download (Sept. 22, 1998)
• The IUB Webmaster
• Romuald Dabrowski's Useful Links

HTML

• A rudimentary HTML style guide (Jerry Franke & Dave Wilson)
• W3C HTML validation tool (Gerald Oskoboiny)
• Netscape's Creating Net Sites - Authoring Documents
• Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• HTML Quick Reference Guide (from the Univ. of Kansas)
• WWW Test Pattern and WWW Viewer Test Page
• Web Style Manual from Yale CAIM (2nd ed.)

Internet/World-Wide Web

• UCS Knowledge Base
• Webmaster Reference Library
• WWW Frequently Asked Questions and WWW Security FAQ
• Internet Engineering Task Force
• WWW Consortium (Web specifications, etc)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation and Center for Democracy & Technology
• iu.www

History

• From Webspace to Cyberspace (.pdf file)
• Vannevar Bush's As We May Think
• The Short History of the Internet
• The Curse of Xanadu
• Some other writings on the Internet

Unix

• UWSG: UITS's Unix Workstation Users' Group

• A summary of Useful Unix commands (Arijit Sengupta)
• UCS Unix and Unix application publications (search for Unix)
• UCS Account Services
• The Unix Reference Desk

WWW Servers

• The wwwstat log analyzer
• NCSA HTTPd Home Page
• Web Server Comparison Chart

Perl & CGI, CGI

• CGI Documentation
• Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm
• CGI Programmer's Reference (M. Hedlund, closed now, pointers)

Perl

• www.perl.com
• The University of Florida Perl Archive
• Middle of Nowhere Perl/CGI Page
• Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (North America)
• PostScript sources of reference guides for Perl 4 and Perl 5 (local copy)
• Perl 5 operator precedence table (local)
• ASCII table (local)
• Book examples from Learning Perl and Programming Perl (local copy)
• Tom Christiansen's Perl slides (local copy)
• Perl Tutorial from NCSA
• A Beginner's Guide to Perl online tutorial
• iu.perl

Java

• www.javasoft.com
• White Paper and Tutorial (local copies)
• API User's Guide and Book (local copies)
• Harold's Java FAQ and Tutorial (local copies)
• Gamelan and Java Applet Rating Service
• Cafe Au Lait and TeamJava
• Java operator precedence table (local)
• Java in a Nutshell demos (local copies)
• Java in a Nutshell Online Quick Reference for JDK 1.2
• JavaWorld magazine
• comp.lang.java and iu.java

General

• UCS Help Online
• Netscape's Internet Search and Internet Directory
• Search Engines
• Virtual Tourist and Citylink
• Britannica Online