Web Programming and Internet Technologies: An E-Commerce Approach (2nd Edition)

Description

Revised and updated with the latest data from the field, Web Programming and Internet Technologies: An E-Commerce Approach, Second Edition continues to feature a hands-on and active learning approach. Written for the one-term web programming course for first or second year students, the Second Edition introduces students to the fundamental techniques of web programming through the continual development of a real-world business example.  Students learn the basics of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL and apply their knowledge to construct their own fully functional e-commerce site.

Key Features

• Updated throughout to include HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and PHP
• Includes an introduction to responsive web design
• Includes an introduction to AJAX
• Presents a real world case study in each chapter using the example of Nature’s Source, a business that sells health products online.
• Each chapter concludes with updated resources to test student comprehension, including Quick Questions to Test Your Basic Knowledge, Short  Exercises to Improve Your Basic Understanding, and What Else You May Want or Need to Know.

Appropriate Courses

• Web Programming – written for the one-term course for first or second year students

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Setting the Scene
• Chapter 2 Establishing a Web Presence
• Chapter 3 HTML for Content Structure
• Chapter 4 CSS for Content Presentation
• Chapter 5 HTML Forms for Data Collection
• Chapter 6 JavaScript for Client-Side Computation and Form Data Validation
• Chapter 7 JavaScript for Client-Side Content Behavior
• Chapter 8 PHP for Server-Side Preprocessing
• Chapter 9 MySQL for Server-Side Data Storage
• Chapter 10 PHP and MySQL for Client-Server Database Interaction
• Chapter 11 XML (eXtensible Markup Language) for Data Description
• Chapter 12 Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Visitor Data

Authors Biography

Porter Scobey, PhD – Saint Mary’s University, Halifax

Dr. Scobey has taught full time in the Department of Mathematics and Computing Science at Saint Mary’s University since September of 1969. In mathematics he taught courses in the pre-calculus and three-year calculus sequence, linear and abstract algebra, mathematical statistics, and operations research. Since 1984 he has been teaching almost exclusively in the area of computing science, including courses in introductory programming, data structures and software engineering, survey of programming languages, internet technologies and web programming, and discrete mathematics for computing science.

Dr. Scobey began his programming experience with FORTRAN on the IBM 1620 in 1963 and has worked as a contract programmer and operations research consultant, in addition to his teaching experience. He has programmed to a greater or lesser extent in BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal, C, C++, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Java, LISP, PROLOG, and SMALLTALK, and has worked on the VMS, Unix, X-Window, Macintosh, DOS, and Windows platforms.

Pawan Lingras, PhD – Saint Mary’s University, Halifax

Pawn Lingras is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computing Science at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada. He has authored more than 160 research papers in various international journals and conferences. He has also co-authored two textbooks, and co-edited two books and five volumes of research papers. His areas of interests include artificial intelligence, information retrieval, data mining, web intelligence, and intelligent transportation systems. He has served as the general co-chair, program co-chair, review committee chair, program committee member, and reviewer for various international conferences on artificial intelligence and data mining. He is also on editorial boards of a number of international journals.