Web Application Programming

Revision: TE9980_20071004

Course Length:

5 Days

Course Description:

This 5-day course gives an overview of five applications used in creating web applications. Topics discussed include: XHTML, Perl programming, CGI programming, JavaScript, and XML. Students will gain a better understanding on how these applications are used together to create dynamic web applications.

Who Should Attend:

This course is for Business analysts and managers who need an overview of various web applications.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand XHTML and create a simple web page
• Understand the basics of the Perl programming language
• Create a simple Perl program
• Create forms using XHTML and CGI programming
• Understand the basics of the JavaScript programming language
• Grasp XML and its relationship to XHTML

Prerequisites:

A general understanding of web applications is helpful.

Course Outline:

• Basic and Advanced (X)HTML
  1. A Brief History of the World Wide Web
  2. (X)HTML Basics
  3. Introduction to (X)HTML Tags
  4. XHTML Rules
  5. Horizontal Rules
  6. Text Formatting Tags
  7. Character Entities
  8. Lists and Links
  9. Images and Image Maps
  10. Thumbnails
  11. Tables
  12. Frames
  13. Additional Navigational Features
• Perl Programming
  1. What is Perl and Where Can I Get it?
  2. The First Perl Program
  3. Simple I/O
  4. Perl Variables
  5. Numbers and Arrays
  6. Array Functions
  7. Arrays and STDIN
  8. Control Flow Constructs
  9. Altering Loop Control Flow - last
  10. Altering Loop Control Flow - next
  11. Altering Loop Control Flow - redo
  12. Labeled Blocks For Long Breaks
  13. Statement Modifiers
  14. What Is True And What Is False?
  15. Associative Arrays
  16. The Special Built In Variable $_
  17. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
  18. Writing Your Own Functions
• CGI Programming
  1. The Request Response Paradigm
  2. The Common Gateway Interface
  3. HTML Form Tags
  4. INPUT Tags
  5. Pull Down Menus and Text Areas
  6. SUBMIT and RESET
  7. GET or POST
  8. Packaging and Processing Form Data
  9. Arrays In Perl
  10. More Processing of the Form Data
  11. CGI Programming
  12. Form Validation
  13. Persistent Data
  14. Opening and Reading Files
  15. Returning A Document Containing A Form
  16. Hidden Fields
• JavaScript Programming
  1. Perspective and Background
  2. Uses of JavaScript
  3. Browser Wars and Browser Compatibility
  4. A Simple JavaScript Example
  5. The JavaScript Language
  6. Core Language Features
  7. Object-Oriented Features
  8. Language Structure
  9. Numbers, Strings, Booleans, and Variables
  10. Local vs. Global Variables
  11. Functions
  12. Expressions and Operators
  13. Arithmetic and Comparison Operators
  14. Logical Operators
  15. Operator Precedence
  16. The if, else, else if, switch, while, and for Statements
  17. Nested for Loops
  18. The break and continue Statements
  19. Creating and Processing Arrays
  20. Array Methods
  21. Associative Arrays
  22. The for/in Loop
  23. User Defined Functions
  24. Arguments and Parameters
  25. The arguments Array
  26. JavaScript Built-In Functions
  27. The Math and Date Objects
  28. The Document Object Model
  29. Accessing DOM Objects, Properties, and Methods
  30. Event Types and Handlers
  31. Event Handlers as HTML Attributes and Properties
  32. Event Propagation and Properties
  33. Internet Explorer Event Properties
  34. Netscape Navigator Event Properties
  35. Cross-Browser Event Properties
  36. Event Properties Reference
  37. Window Properties and Methods
  38. Opening New Windows
  39. Window Events
  40. Windows and Frames
  41. The Location Object
  42. Tiered Architectures
  43. Validating Data
  44. Form Element Event Types
  45. Text and Button Events
  46. A Validation Example
  47. Batch Validation
  48. Verifying Radio Buttons
  49. Lists, Libraries and Databases
  50. Rollovers
  51. Image Maps
  52. The Forms Array
  53. The Anchors and Applets Array
  54. Other Document Properties
  55. Cookies
  56. Document Methods
• XML
  1. History
  2. What is a Markup Language?
  3. Standard Generalized Markup Language
  4. Hypertext Markup Language
  5. Sample HTML Document
  6. Extensible Markup Language
  7. XML Vocabularies
  8. Creating Semantic Tags
  9. XML Syntax
  10. Elements
  11. Attributes
  12. Comments
  13. Unicode and Character Sets
  14. Character References
  15. Entity References
  16. Character Data Sections (CDATA)
  17. Processing Instructions
  18. Parsing XML
  19. Introduction to DTDs
  20. Element Type Declarations
  21. Cardinality Summary
  22. Attribute Type Declarations
  23. String Attribute Type Declarations
  24. Attribute Default Specifications
  25. Enumerated Attribute Type Declarations
  26. ID Attribute Type Declarations
  27. IDREF and IDREFS Attribute Type Declarations
  28. NMTOKEN Attribute Type Declarations
  29. Entity Type Declarations
  30. Entity Declarations
  31. ENTITY Attribute Type Declarations
  32. NOTATION Attribute Type Declarations
  33. What is a CSS?
  34. Creating CSS2 Stylesheets
  35. Selecting Elements
  36. Pattern Matching
  37. STYLE Attributes
  38. Inheritance
  39. Cascades
  40. Multiple Stylesheets
  41. Comments
  42. Property Names and Values