CSCI A348/548 Syllabus Fall 2000

A syllabus will be posted here shortly.

It will follow the

• line of reasoning that you can find here

• and most of the table of contents from here.

MIDTERM EXAM is on October 19, 2000, in class (7-8:15pm).

Here's a quick summary:

1. Unix: shells and utility programs (tar, gz)
2. Simple Perl programs: a simple network server. Project.
3. Putting it all together: installing Apache
4. Configuration files and directory structure of Apache
5. ServerRoot, DocumentRoot, basic HTML documents.
6. HTTP
7. A special directory: cgi-bin
8. More Perl. CGI. HTML forms. ReadParse, CGI.pm, object-oriented Perl.
9. Simple CGI applications. Projects.
10. Dynamic HTML. JavaScript.
11. JavaScript project: developing a shopping cart application.

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12. Java. Java applets. Java networking: sockets, RMI, HTTPChatApplet.
13. Additional server-side platforms: PHP and JSP. Projects.
14. Comparison of Web Development Solutions. Databases.
15. Web security. Encryption.
16. XML: a standard for business to business communication. Project.
17. A brief history of the web and a collection of possible futures.