EE-WEB Web Programming

This course has been upgraded. Please see Web Based Control (also with Java and PERL).

Course information

• Class Policy
• Academic Handbook
• Course Description
• Approximate Tape Recording Schedule
• Book References
• Web References

Course documents

• Examples used in class
• Sample Exams from the past
• Homework Assignment Set by Year the course was offered:
  • Set 1 - 2000
  • Set 2 - 2001
  • Set 3 - 2002
  • Set 4 - 2003

Most Recent Textbooks

These books and resources should be used even if you take the course using the old prerecorded materials.

• Just Java 2, 6th Edition by Peter Van Der Linden; Prentice Hall; ISBN 0-13148-211-4
• Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition by S. Spainhour, R. Eckstein; O'Reilly; ISBN 0-59600-357-9
• Perl Core Language Little Black Book, 2nd Edition by Steven Holzner; O'Reilly; ISBN 1-93211-192-1
• On-line Java Documentation for current version of Java

Old Video Coruse Textbooks

Theese books and resources are mentioned in the recorded video course. However, please do use the current textbooks listed above instead.

• Core Web Programming, 2nd Edition by Marty Hall; Prentice Hall; ISBN 0-13-089793-0
• PERL Black Book by Steven Holzner, Coriolis, ISBN 1-57610-456-6
• WebMaster in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition by S. Spainhour, O'Reilly
• On-line Java Documentation for Java2 version 1.2

Software

• SSH - Secure Shell and file transfer
• FireFox and recommended plugin tools
  • FireFox - Web browser
  • Web Developer - the must have tools
  • HTML Validator (Tidy) - not as stricts as W3C, good for daily work on your Web site
  • LinkChecker - not utlized in the course
  • JavaScript Debugger - good for trouble shooting JavaScript
  • ViewSourceWith - not utlized in the course
  • Tamper Data - good for studying HTTP protocol (covered in Java network programming theme)
• UltraEdit - great shareware text editor ($30)
• Java Development Kit from Sun use 1.6.0: SDK (60MB), documentation (55MB)
  Detailed instructions how to install compiler and run programs, and on campus downloads
  on campus SDK 1.6.0   on campus DOC 1.6.0   on campus TUT 1.6.0  
• How to run Java compiler with UltraEdit
• ActiveState PERL5 for Win32 (15MB)   on campus download ver. 8.20
• PHP language support (0.8MB), to be used with a Web server
• Apache Web Server - the most popular reliable Web server, and it is free.