Fall 2009
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Section 01: MWF 12:30-1:20pm VH 1328
Office Hours
- M-W,F 8:30-9:30am, 10:30-11:30am
Contact Information:
- Office: Violette Hall Rm 2166
- Office Phone: x7600
- Email: agarvey@truman.edu
Online syllabus for this class.
Exams
- There will be two in class exams and a comprehensive final.
- Exam One Terms and Concepts Know these for Exam One, which is Wednesday, 14 October 2009
- A possible answer to the pattern matching question on the exam.
- Exam Two Terms and Concepts Know these for Exam Two, which is Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Project Milestones
- Project Proposal is due 11 September 2009
- Milestone 1 of your project, focusing on HTML/CSS, is due by 9 October 2009
- Milestone 2 of your project, focusing on Javascript, is due by 30 October 2009
- Milestone 3 of your project, focusing on PHP, is due by 16 November 2009
- Milestone 4 of your project, focusing on PHP/Databases/Security, is due by 4 December 2009
Homework Assignments
- There will be about 6 homework assignments.
- Homework 1 Assigned: 9 September 2009, Due: 16 September 2009
- Homework 2 Assigned: 16 September 2009, Due: 25 September 2009
- Homework 3 Assigned: 28 September 2009, Due: 12 October 2009
- Homework 4 Assigned: 28 October 2009, Due: 6 November 2009
- Homework 5 Assigned: 9 November 2009, Due: 20 November 2009
Potentially useful links
- Assignment Submission Page should be used for submitting all assignments for this class.
- Files discussed in class
- The following books are available free online through Truman's Safari subscription.
- The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design has wonderful details about using CSS to produce interesting layouts.
- Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference is a nice XHTML reference from O'Reilly. Unfortunately, it is no longer available with Truman's Safari subscription.
- Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition is THE book on all things regular expression. Highly recommended. Unfortunately not available on Truman's Safari.
- Regular Expression Pocket Reference is an adequate alternative for regular expressions.
- Learning Perl, 5th Edition is a great book for getting acquainted with Perl. Recommended.
- Javascript & DHTML Cookbook, 2nd Edition is a good source for Javascript ideas.
- XML Visual QuickStart Guide seems to be a reasonable reference for XML-related topics.
- XHTML examples from class
- Wikipedia HTTP Protocol page has a useful primer on the HTTP protocol
- simple XHTML file
- Javascript for toolbar operations as discussed in class
- XHTML file used in class
- Frame example used in class
- My schedule as a table example
- Adequate example of using tables for layout
- Form example from Sebesta book
- CSS examples from class
- Inline style example
- Document style example
- External style example
- CSS Zen Garden look here for lots of examples
- boxout.html from Essential Guide showing a nice way to create a boxout, with related file boxout.css.
- two-divs.html with related CSS two-divs.css shows how to create a sidebar with faux-column backgrounds. pinkflag.com/colin-newman.php shows a real website that uses this idea.
- multiple-boxouts.html and related file multiple-boxouts.css show how to extend the boxouts idea easily to multiple boxouts.
- Very CSSified version of my webpages. The CSS is in the file css-only.css
- Incomplete example of an almost purely positional layout
- Javascript files from class
- Mediocre Javascript craps game
- Examples of Javascript as discussed in class
- debugdemo.html buggy Javascript example from book
- Ch 5 example 1, Ch 5 example 2, Ch 5 example 3 and Ch 5 example 5 as discussed in class.
- Dynamic HTML examples one, two, three and four from the Goodman Dynamic HTML book.
- Glitzy Javascript stuff
- More Goodman examples from Javascript and DHTML Cookbook form validation example and dynamic form example
- Position-related Javascript
- A simple AJAX example
- Another AJAX example with hack2.js and hack2.phps on the backend.
- Unobtrusive AJAX is a Safari book (really more of a booklet) that I really like. We will look at examples from this.
- Headfirst AJAX is an especially easy-to-read discussion of AJAX topics.
- Perl CGI files from class
- Learning Perl is the best introduction to Perl that I know. Everybody I know who knows Perl learned it from this book.
- reply.html, which calls reply.perl
- popcorn2.html, which calls popcorn.perl
- conelec.html, which calls conelec1.perl and conelec2.perl.
- submit.perl is a soft link to the Assignment Submission Page code and evaluate.perl is a soft link to the Evaluation page. And the code for the most recent version.
- Java Applet and Servlet files from class
- The Wel2.java applet code and wel2.html file.
- The Clock.java applet code and clock.html file.
- Greeting.java is a simple Java servlet.
- Survey.java is a servlet that plays the same role as the Perl consumer electronic survey.
- Other CGI examples
- CGI in Ada
- CGI in C
- reply.html, which calls reply.perl
- PHP examples from class
- phpinfo.php just calls the phpinfo() function to return information about the PHP environment on xenon.
- PHP in Action is my current favorite PHP book on Safari, but note that it is about PHP 5, which Truman does not provide.
- A step-by-step guide to getting Perl CGI scripts to work on xenon. Some of this is also relevant for PHP.
- powers.php is a simple script. The source is here.
- sorting.php shows various sorting functions. The source is here.
- popcorn3.html is yet another version of the popcorn form. popcorn3.phps is the source for the code that processes it.
- date.phps shows preg_match and preg_split. Try it using date.php.
- upload.phps is a simple example of using PHP for file uploads that I use for CS 180. To see it in action try upload.php.
- submit.phps is a rewrite of the Assignment Submission Page in PHP. It seems to work, as you can try at this link.
- Ajax Hacks is a fairly new O'Reilly book that has lots of examples of the client side of AJAX.
- sports.html uses AJAX to show results of a survey as soon as you click on a choice. hacks2_5.js is the Javascript. sport.phps is the backend PHP. sport.dat is the underlying data file. checkbox.html adds dynamic checkboxes. hacks2_7.js is the underlying Javascript.
- prefs.html is a form that lets you set preferences using cookies. prefs.php (with source in prefs.phps) is the PHP that processes the form and sets a cookie. prefs-demo.php is code that demonstrates the use of the preferences (with source prefs-demo.phps)
- prefs-session.html is a form that lets you set preferences using a session. prefs-session.php (with source in prefs-session.phps) is the PHP that processes the form and starts the session. prefs-session-demo.php is code that demonstrates the use of the preferences (with source prefs-session-demo.phps). See endsession.phps to see how to end a session.
- Securing PHP Web Applications seems to do a pretty thorough job of describing how to use PHP securely.
- Ajax with PHP 5 is a good introduction to using AJAX with a PHP backend.
- hello.php with hello.phps source from the Ajax with PHP 5 book.
- phpMyAdmin is a nice tool to give you access to your mysql database over the web.
- A step-by-step guide to setting up your tables in a Mysql database should help you get started. The online Mysql manual is especially helpful.
- booklistpub.php is a site that uses forms and a database to keep information about books. bookreportpub.php shows the manipulatable stored data. Sources are in booklistpub.phps and bookreportpub.phps.
- testsurvey.phps is a survey similar to the submit page that uses a database. It testsurvey.php actually works. shortsurveyresults.perl is Perl code that presents the results from the database and actually works. longsurveyresults.perl is Perl code that presents more detailed results from the database and actually works. setup_survey.sql shows SQL code for creating the survey table and setup_survey.cmd has a command line mysql call to use the setup_survey.sql file.
- longsurveyresults.phps shows the survey result page done in PHP. And it actually works.
- fullrep.perl is now set up and is an example of using a where clause in an SQL select command and it works from the longsurveyresult reports.
- Useful code sniplets for Perl and PHP.
- Learning PHP & MySQL is a good reference on this topic from Safari.
- PHP and MySQL Web Development is a helpful book that is still accessible via Safari.
- Perils of SQL injection
- a directory full of authentication example files.
- A good tutorial that describes the components of Rails.
- A quick look at Ruby on Rails in action.
- Ruby on Rails demo on YouTube.
- XML examples from class
- example1.xml is a simple well-formed XML file. Browsers recognize this as XML and have a special way of presenting it. The exact contents of the XML can be seen when you View Source.
- example2.xml shows a valid XML document. It is valid because it conforms to the DTD included at the top of the file.
- bookexample.xml is another example of a more complex DTD.
- ex2extdtd.xml shows example2 with an external DTD file. ex2.dtd is the external DTD file.
- attexample.xml shows an example of a DTD that declares attributes.
- schema-example.xml is an XML file that can be validated using the schema schema-example.xsd.
- A W3C Website that has both a DTD and an XML Schema definition for the XML Schema language.
- meditate.xml is an XML file that has its display formatted using meditate.css.
- meditate2.xml is an XML file that has its display formatted using meditate2.css. This shows how to use :before and :after pseudo-elements with the content CSS attribute to add text to the displayed file.
- planets.xml is an XML file that is transformed using a really simple XSLT style sheet planets.xsl. (You need to use View Source to see the xsl file.)
- planets2.xml is the same XML file with a more interestingly complex XSLT style sheet planets2.xsl.
- In theory, you can extend XHTML by adding new tags. You define the tags in a DTD that includes the XHTML DTD, such as extend.dtd. You say how to present the new tags using CSS, such as extend.css. In theory you could use the tags in XHTML, such as extend.html, but browsers don't notice, because they don't look at DTDs. But you can make this work as XML, such as extend.xml.
- A local copy of xhtml1-strict.dtd is available. Note the extensive use of parameter entities.
- HTML/CSS related pages
- PHP related pages
- Antique protocols pages