Pre-requisites

Students must be comfortable with basic programming concepts such as variables, loops, and sub-routines. No specific language is required and no knowledge of Internet / Web development is assumed.

• Design interactive Web sites which retrieve data from server databases
• Use Javascript to perform client side scripting
• Write HTML
• Use dynamic HTML to control the browser
• New rules for HTML (XHTML) and how to conert from HTML to XHTML
• How to validate your XHTML
• Execute SQL on the server to retrieve, add, update, and delete database records
• Use SQL to perform complex database queries
• Perform secure business transaction

Course Content

Overview of Internet and Intranet
TCP/IP | IP addresses and domain names | Resolving names to addresses | Internetworking | Sockets | Development options [CGI programs, Server side scripting, Client side scripting]

Web Design Issues
Browser compatibility concerns | You don't own the resources | WYSIWYMG | High traffic web sites Security Issues | Java security | Javascript security | VBScript security | CGI security | Firewalls | Encryption and digital signatures | SSL (secure sockets)

Internet Information Server Overview
IIS features | Installing and managing web applications with IIS

Introduction to HTML
Overview of tags | Writing by hand | Using tools to generate HTML | Using Forms | Sending Email | Image maps | Document object model | Cascading stylesheets | Integrating Java Applets | Using Visual Interdev

XHTML
New standard for HTML | XHTML rules | Converting from HTML to XHTML | Validating XHTML

Introduction to JavaScript
Using JavaScript for client side scripting | What is JavaScript? | Variables | Input & Output | Conditionals | Events | Browser Manipulation | The Document Object Model | Flow Contro | Functions | Parameters & arguments | Form Validation | Reading and writing cookies | Using Visual Interdev | Using cookies to store user information | Working with multiple browser windows | Preloading images for speed | Implementing slide shows and image rollovers | Performing client side validation | Validating credit cards, dates, and email addresses | Effective use of timers

Perl
Perl & CGI | The Perl language | Processing text | Working with files | Sending email | Processing HTML forms | Creating files

Standard SQL in Depth
Thorough introduction to SQL | Inserting, updating, & deleting | Grouping & Having clauses | Aggregate functions | Nested queries | Left, Right and Full outer joins | SQL Data Definition Language | Parameterized & linked queries