T. Andrew Yang 

(yang@grove.iup.edu)
Computer Science Department

HTTP://WWW.CO103.IUP.EDU/

1. Introduction to Web Development

1. World Wide Web as a new computing platform

2. The client-server model

3. The multi-tier model

4. Sample Web applications

5. Alternative Web development technologies

6. Client side development

7. Server side development

8. Summary

2. Curriculum Design

1. Curriculum Design Issues

2. A Sample Course

3. Lessons Learned

4. Specialty Track in Enterprise Computing

References

Designing and Teaching a Web Development Course

• Interpreted or executed by the client (that is, the Web browser).

• Note: Web pages are stored on the Web server.

Ö  Various Markup Languages

     HTML, XML, VRML, ...

Ö  Various Scripting Languages

     Client side JavaScripts (or Jscripts)

     Client side VBScripts

     Java applets

• Question:  Does a Web browser have built-in capabilities to interpret and execute these languages and scripts?

Ö  Issues with client side scripting

• Inconsistent support across the existing Web browsers

• Source exposed to the viewer

• Awkward connectivity to back-end servers (e.g., ODBC)

• Security