| DATE | SESSION | TOPIC[s] COVERED |
| [Week 1] | 1 |
Administration (forms, forms, forms). Introduction to the Internet. Overview of networking and TCP/IP. Using the Web. Internet addressing. Graphical tools (FTP and telnet clients, various browsers) |
|---|---|---|
| 2 |
Introduction to HTML (HyperText Markup Language) HTML Basic Tags. -- Write your first HTML page. |
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| 3 |
Introduction to the UNIX operating system. |
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| [Week 2] | 4 |
Using UNIX for web development -- What you need to know. Network tools (ftp, telnet, ping) Navigating through the UNIX file system. Text editors (pico, vi, etc..) |
| 5 |
Using HTML -- beyond basic tags. The META tag, and client-pulls. Adding colors to your web page -- The RGB hexadecimal color scheme. Creating images and imagemaps. |
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| 6 |
Defining and creating tables. Defining and creating frames and framesets. |
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| [Week 3] | 7 |
Understanding HTML forms. Input fields, Radio buttons, Checkboxes, Textareas. Form submissions. |
| 8 |
HTTP protocol (Hypertext transmission protocol) The GET, POST, and HEAD methods Introduction to CGI (Common Gateway Interface) MIME types (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) |
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| [Week 4] | 9 | Adding style to your HTML. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Inline, Embedded, External style sheets. Inheritance and Cascading rules. |
| 10 |
XML -- Extensible Markup Language. What is it? Do I need it? Differences between HTML and XML. How to create a "Well-formed" XML document. How to create a "Valid" XML document. XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) DTD (Document Type Definition) |
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| [Week 5] | 11 |
Introduction to programming. Programming constructs... |
| 12 |
Apache web server installation and configuration. |
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| [Week 6] | xx |
Review for midterm (UNIX, HTML, HTTP, CSS, XML, Apache server) - Midterm - |
| 13 |
Images on the web, GIF, JPEG and PNG. PhotoShop presentation |
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| [Week 7] | 14 |
Introduction to JavaScript. JavaScript Basics and dynamic HTML. |
| 15 |
JavaScript Object and Event Models. JavaScript Event-Handlers with HTML. The global Window object. The Document Object Model (DOM). |
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| [Week 8] | 16 |
JavaScript examples. |
| 17 |
DHTML and JavaScript. What is DHTML? Netscape Layer object. IE. All and Style objects. Defining a common denominator for DHTML. |
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| [Week 9] | 18 |
Introduction to Perl -- Perl syntax. Arrays and Lists. Basic Input and Output. Perl control structures. |
| 19 |
Programming with Perl -- More advanced topics. Associate Arrays (Hashs). File Input and Output. String manipulation functions. User written subroutines. |
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| [Week 10] | 20 |
CGI - (Common Gateway Interface) CGI.pm Perl module. |
| 21 |
Perl CGI examples. |
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| 22 |
Stateful vs. stateless protocols. Maintaining persistence, various methods to maintain state. Cookies. (Sample application) |
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| [Week 11] | 23 |
Securing your site with cookies. Securing your site with .htaccess. SSI - Server Side Includes. |
| 24 |
Introduction to SQL (Structured Query Language). DDL and DML statements. Creating Tables, defining keys and Indexes. Manipulating (insert, update & delete) data within a database. Query data using SQL Select. Query data from multiple tables using the join construct. Searching through the database. |
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| [Week 12] | xx |
Review for final Exam (Image types, JavaScript, Perl, CGI, SQL) - Final Exam - |
| xx |
- Project Presentations - |