Web Programming, Fall 2013

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LON-CAPA exercises

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Fun: The dangers of PHP

(The LON-CAPA exercises are meant to help you prepare for the exam. Each week more exercises will be added. The exercises will not be marked but you should complete them before the exam.)

Weekly Schedule:

Week	Date	Topics	Practicals	Resources
1	25.9	HTML and CSS (pdf)	exercises 1	HTML Intro, HTML Cheatsheet HTML special characters CSS Reference, CSS Tutorial
2	2.10	W3C Standards, Web 2.0, CMS	exercises 2	News: Google's new algorithm W3C accessibility evaluation resources
3	9.10	Introduction to Server-Side Web Languages (pdf)	PHP intro exercises, PHP webform exercises, (answers)	PHP manual, HTML Forms
4	16.10	HTTP Protocol and Server-Side Basics (pdf)	exercises 4, environment variables exercises, (answers) session exercises, (answers)
5	23.10	Regular Expressions (pdf) Semantic Web (pdf)	regular expression exercises (answers)	On-line regular expression test Regular expression special characters Berners-Lee: The Semantic Web (pdf) Semantic Web (video)
6	30.10	Web graphics (pdf)	graphics exercises, answers,
7	6.11	XML: structures (pdf)	XML exercises	XML DTD Quick Reference (pdf) Interactive XML tutorials
8	13.11	XML: tools and extensions (pdf)	more XML exercises, answers	DOM Cheatsheet (pdf) Live DOM viewer xhtml example
9	20.11	Web Security (pdf)	security exercises	Security Testing Cheat Sheet WWW Security FAQ Browser spy, PHP security
10	27.11	Rich Internet Applications AJAX (pdf)	In-class exercises AJAX exercises, answers	Wikipedia: Javascript, AJAX XMLHttpRequest AJAX: A New Approach to Web Applications (paper) You may need Firefox for the AJAX exercises.
11	4.12	Unicode, XSL, and HTML5 (pdf)	exercises	Unicode, HTML Canvas demo, Evercookie (Wikipedia)
12	11.12	Web services (pdf)	SOAP exercises	phprestsql
13	18.12	On-line evaluation of code More exam preparation	exercises
Exam	10.1.14	14:00-15:30

Alternatives for students who already know PHP