This unique book provides an introduction to programming on the Internet. Class-tested over a two-year period, this text covers the "nuts and bolts" of Internet programming. In addition to core fundamentals, readers are introduced to Web page construction HTML, managing an account on a web server, client-server model, and JavaScript programming.
Craig D. Knuckles is the author of Introduction to Interactive Programming on the Internet: Using HTML and JavaScript, published by Wiley.
Features
Platform Independent. Students can use virtually any type of computer to apply concepts.
Coverage includes the basics of web server accounts. Strategies for maintaining and updating a web site on a server.
Student Learning Tools. Each of the eighteen lessons feature summaries, review questions and exercises. Exercises feature both stand-alone exercises, and two project threads that run throughout the text. Project threads guide students through the construction of a structured web site.
Optional Sections. Optional sections provide an extra challenge for more advanced students.
Robust Website Support. Website contains:
All examples and figures from the text for use in classroom demonstrations.
References to many online materials, such as freeware and shareware applications.
Some exercises are inextricably bound to the website.