Programming the World Wide Web: United States Edition

For undergraduate students who have completed a course in object-oriented programming   Programming the World Wide Web 2010 provides a comprehensive introduction to the tools and skills required for both client- and server-side programming, teaching students how to develop platform-independent sites using the most current Web development technology. Essential programming exercises are presented using a manageable progression: students begin with a foundational XHTML Web site and employ new languages and technologies to add features as they are discussed in the course. Readers with previous experience programming with an object-oriented language are guided through concepts relating to client-side and server-side programming, including ASP.NET using C#, JavaScript™, Java™ servlets, Ajax, JSP™, XHTML, XML, PHP, Ruby, and Rails.    

Table of Contents:
Preface xiii 1 Fundamentals 1 1.1 A Brief Introduction to the Internet 2 1.2 The World Wide Web 6 1.3 Web Browsers 7 1.4 Web Servers 8 1.5 Uniform Resource Locators 11 1.6 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions 13 1.7 The Hypertext Transfer Protocol 15 1.8 Security 18 1.9 The Web Programmer’s Toolbox 20 Summary 28 Review Questions 30 Exercises 32 2 Introduction to XHTML 35 2.1 Origins and Evolution of HTML and XHTML 36 2.2 Basic Syntax 38 2.3 Standard XHTML Document Structure 39 2.4 Basic Text Markup 40 2.5 Images 49 2.6 Hypertext Links 54 2.7 Lists 57 2.8 Tables 63 2.9 Forms 71 2.10 Syntactic Differences between HTML and XHTML 84 Summary 85 Review Questions 86 Exercises 88 3 Cascading Style Sheets 91 3.1 Introduction 92 3.2 Levels of Style Sheets 93 3.3 Style Specification Formats 94 3.4 Selector Forms 96 3.5 Property Value Forms 99 3.6 Font Properties 100 3.7 List Properties 106 3.8 Color 110 3.9 Alignment of Text 112 3.10 The Box Model 114 3.11 Background Images 119 3.12 The and Tags 121 3.13 Conflict Resolution 122 Summary 124 Review Questions 126 Exercises 127 4 The Basics of JavaScript 129 4.1 Overview of JavaScript 130 4.2 Object Orientation and JavaScript 133 4.3 General Syntactic Characteristics 134 4.4 Primitives, Operations, and Expressions 137 4.5 Screen Output and Keyboard Input 146 4.6 Control Statements 150 4.7 Object Creation and Modification 158 4.8 Arrays 159 4.9 Functions 164 4.10 An Example 169 4.11 Constructors 170 4.12 Pattern Matching Using Regular Expressions 171 4.13 Another Example 176 4.14 Errors in Scripts 177 Summary 179 Review Questions 181 Exercises 183 5 JavaScript and XHTML Documents 185 5.1 The JavaScript Execution Environment 186 5.2 The Document Object Model 187 5.3 Element Access in JavaScript 191 5.4 Events and Event Handling 193 5.5 Handling Events from Body Elements 197 5.6 Handling Events from Button Elements 199 5.7 Handling Events from Text Box and Password Elements 204 5.8 The DOM 2 Event Model 214 5.9 The navigator Object 219 5.10 DOM Tree Traversal and Modification 221 Summary 222 Review Questions 223 Exercises 224 6 Dynamic Documents with JavaScript 227 6.1 Introduction 228 6.2 Positioning Elements 228 6.3 Moving Elements 234 6.4 Element Visibility 237 6.5 Changing Colors and Fonts 238 6.6 Dynamic Content 242 6.7 Stacking Elements 245 6.8 Locating the Mouse Cursor 249 6.9 Reacting to a Mouse Click 251 6.10 Slow Movement of Elements 253 6.11 Dragging and Dropping Elements 256 Summary 261 Review Questions 262 Exercises 262 7 Introduction to XML 265 7.1 Introduction 266 7.2 The Syntax of XML 268 7.3 XML Document Structure 271 7.4 Document Type Definitions 272 7.5 Namespaces 279 7.6 XML Schemas 281 7.7 Displaying Raw XML Documents 289 7.8 Displaying XML Documents with CSS 291 7.9 XSLT Style Sheets 293 7.10 XML Processors 302 7.11 Web Services 304 Summary 305 Review Questions 307 Exercises 309 8 Introduction to Flash 311 8.1 Origins and Uses of Flash 312 8.2 A First Look at the Flash Authoring Environment 312 8.3 Drawing Tools 318 8.4 Static Graphics 327 8.5 Animation and Sound 332 8.6 User Interactions 343 Summary 348 Review Questions 350 Exercises 351 9 Introduction to PHP 353 9.1 Origins and Uses of PHP 354 9.2 Overview of PHP 354 9.3 General Syntactic Characteristics 355 9.4 Primitives, Operations, and Expressions 356 9.5 Output 362 9.6 Control Statements 364 9.7 Arrays 367 9.8 Functions 376 9.9 Pattern Matching 379 9.10 Form Handling 382 9.11 Files 388 9.12 Cookies 391 9.13 Session Tracking 394 Summary 394 Review Questions 396 Exercises 398 10 Introduction to Ajax 401 10.1 Overview of Ajax 402 10.2 The Basics of Ajax 405 10.3 Return Document Forms 415 10.4 Ajax Toolkits 419 10.5 Security and Ajax 427 Summary 428 Review Questions 429 Exercises 430 11 Java Web Software 431 11.1 Introduction to Servlets 432 11.2 The NetBeans Integrated Development Environment 437 11.3 A Survey Example 447 11.4 Storing Information on Clients 454 11.5 JavaServer Pages 463 11.6 JavaBeans 475 11.7 Model-View-Controller Application Architecture 479 11.8 JavaServer Faces 480 Summary 489 Review Questions 490 Exercises 492 12 Introduction to ASP.NET 495 12.1 Overview of the .NET Framework 496 12.2 A Bit of C# 499 12.3 Introduction to ASP.NET 503 12.4 ASP.NET Controls 510 12.5 ASP.NET AJAX 540 12.6 Web Services 546 Summary 555 Review Questions 556 Exercises 558 13 Database Access through the Web 559 13.1 Relational Databases 560 13.2 An Introduction to the Structured Query Language 562 13.3 Architectures for Database Access 567 13.4 The MySQL Database System 569 13.5 Database Access with PHP and MySQL 572 13.6 Database Access with JDBC and MySQL 581 13.7 Database Access with ASP.NET and MySQL 589 Summary 596 Review Questions 598 Exercises 600 14 Introduction to Ruby 601 14.1 Origins and Uses of Ruby 602 14.2 Scalar Types and Their Operations 602 14.3 Simple Input and Output 610 14.4 Control Statements 613 14.5 Fundamentals of Arrays 618 14.6 Hashes 623 14.7 Methods 625 14.8 Classes 630 14.9 Blocks and Iterators 635 14.10 Pattern Matching 638 Summary 641 Review Questions 642 Exercises 642 15 Introduction to Rails 645 15.1 Overview of Rails 646 15.2 Document Requests 648 15.3 Rails Applications with Databases 655 15.4 Rails with Ajax 675 Summary 683 Review Questions 684 Exercises 685 Appendix A Introduction to Java 687 Appendix B Named Colors 703 Appendix C Java Applets 707 Index 735

About the Author :
Dr. Robert W. Sebesta is an Associate Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He received his PhD in computer science from Pennsylvania State University. His professional interests are the design and evaluation of programming languages, compiler design, and software-testing methods and tools. He is the author of Concepts of Programming Languages 9e.