Core Web Programming (Core Series)

Hall, Marty

ISBN 10: 013625666X / ISBN 13: 9780136256663

Published by Prentice Hall Ptr, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Core Web Programming (Core Series)

Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

A comprehensive Web programming resource aimed at the serious developer or upper-level student. Reflects plenty of real-world experience and pointers to key pitfalls and bugs in the major implementations. Four main topics are covered:

HTML: Complete coverage of the HTML 3.2 spec, major Netscape and Internet Explorer extensions, frames, cascading style sheets, dynamic/layered HTML via either extended style sheets or the LAYER and ILAYER elements.

Java: Java 1.1 and 1.0. Detailed coverage of the 1.1 event model. Exhaustive coverage of *every* AWT component. Basic syntax, OOP intro, threads, sockets, RMI, JDBC, serialization, inner classes, double buffering, etc. Hundreds of examples.

CGI Programming: The HTTP specification (request methods, request headers, response status line, response headers, cookies). The client side (HTML forms, sending GET and POST data from applets). The server side (CGI environment variables, writing CGI programs in Java, a CGI form parser and cookie value parser in java, the servlet API, CGI alternatives). An overview of public-key cryptography.

JavaScript: JavaScript 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2. Writing cross-platform scripts. Customizing pages. Manipulating layers. Validating CGI forms. Animating images. Handling events. Regular expressions. Complete quick reference to all of JavaScript 1.2.

The text presents over 200 HTML and JavaScript documents, and more than 250 Java classes, which are also available on the book's CD-ROM.

About the Author:

MARTY HALL is a Senior Computer Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, where he develops distributed information systems. He also teaches World Wide Web programming for local companies and in the Johns Hopkins part-time graduate program in Computer Science.