CSCI399
Autumn Session, 2008

Lecture Notes

Links will be added here for PDF files of lecture slides (some links may work at the start of session, but others may not work until notes are added later).

• Context: Business computing, internet, and web
• Basic web technology
• Browsers, HTML, and Javascript
• CGI programming and 'server side scripting'
• Apache
• Perl (first part of Perl notes)
  (more Perl: system calls, dbi and cgi)
• (first part of php notes)
• (second part of php notes)
• Extra reading: since you will be processing submitted data in SQL statements, you had better understand how hackers may attack! Read SQL injection attacks by example or SQL injection walkthrough. Don't make the kind of mistakes that are described in those articles.
• Servlets
• JPA brief "executive summary" of JPA for the overworked student; but you should read the longer note.
• Note explaining the Java Persistence Architecture and its use in Java SE, web, and enterprise applications.
• JSP
• .NET

In addition, the supplementary material from the book "Web Server Programming" is available both online and in the /share/cs-pub/399 directory from where materials may be downloaded by ftp.