CS 898N Advanced World Wide Web Technologies Lecture 1: Introduction Chin-Chih Chang

Objective This course is to learn an integrated knowledge of Web design, analysis, implementation, and application. Topics such as Web software architecture, client and server technologies, Object Web, dynamic executable scheduling, web-based knowledge base, and Web Security will be covered. The recent research and results will be presented. New approaches and current issues will be discussed.

Introduction A course comprises the necessary knowledge to make decision on which Web technology is employed. This course is for those who want to learn how to do Web programming professionally. You may be one of these people: –a legacy programmer, –an armchair jockey, –a new programmer.

Overview of the Technology The word language is quickly becoming difficult to fit into the scope of what are fast becoming things called technologies. Electronic commerce is driving the expansion of the Internet.

Course Organization An overview of the Internet Web programming –HTML –Dynamic HTML –JavaScript –Visual Basic –PERL –The Basics of Java

Course Organization Web databases Security and E-Commerce XML Other topics

Tools You Will Need Internet browser and Internet access Space on a server Web page editor PERL, Java, Visual Basic,