Randy Connolly – Fundamentals of Web Development (2015)

Автор: Randy Connolly
Название книги: Fundamentals of Web Development (2015)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Компьютеры
Страницы: 1024
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

The book guides students through the creation of enterprise-quality websites using current development frameworks, its comprehensive coverage of a modern internet development platform includes HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, and the LAMP stack (that is, Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Other important technologies covered include jQuery, XML, WordPress, Bootstrap, and a variety of third-party APIs that include Facebook, Twitter, and Google and Bing Maps. Coverage also includes the required ACM web development topics in a modern manner closely aligned with best practices in the real world of web development.

Welcome to the Fundamentals of Web Development. This textbook is intended
to cover the broad range of topics required for modern web development and
is suitable for intermediate to upper-level computing students. A significant percentage
of the material in this book has also been used by the authors to teach web
development principles to first-year computing students and to non-computing
students as well.
One of the difficulties that we faced when planning this book is that web development
is taught in a wide variety of ways and to a diverse student audience. Some
instructors teach a single course that focuses on server-side programming to thirdyear
students; other instructors teach the full gamut of web development across two
or more courses, while others might only teach web development indirectly in the
context of a networking, HCI, or capstone project course. We have tried to create
a textbook that supports learning outcomes in all of these teaching scenarios.

What Is Web Development?
Web development is a term that takes on different meanings depending on the audience
and context. In practice, web development requires people with complementary
but distinct expertise working together toward a single goal. Whereas a graphic
designer might regard web development as the application of good graphic design
strategies, a database administrator might regard it as a simple interface to an
underlying database. Software engineers and programmers might regard web development
as a classic software development task with phases and deliverables, where
a systems administrator sees a system that has to be secured from attackers. With
so many different classes of user and meanings for the term, it’s no wonder that web
development is often poorly understood. Too often, in an effort to fully cover one
aspect of web development, the other principles are ignored altogether, leaving
students without a sense of where their skills fit into the big picture.
A true grasp of web development requires an understanding of multiple perspectives.
As you will see, the design and layout of a website are closely related to
the code and the database. The quality of the graphics is related to the performance
and configuration of the server, and the security of the system spans every aspect of development. All of these seemingly independent perspectives are interrelated and
therefore a web developer (of any type) should have a foundational understanding
of all aspects, even if they only possess expertise in a handful of areas.
Features of the Book
To help students master the fundamentals of web development, this book has the
following features:
■ Covers both the concepts and the practice of the entire scope of web
development. Web development can be a difficult subject to teach because
it involves covering a wide range of theoretical material that is technology
independent as well as practical material that is very specific to a particular
technology. This book comprehensively covers both the conceptual and
practical side of the entire gamut of the web development world.
■ Focused on the web development reality of today’s world and in anticipation
of future trends. The world of web development has changed remarkably
in the past decade. For instance, fewer and fewer sites are being created
from scratch; instead, a great deal of current web development makes use
of existing sophisticated frameworks and environments such as jQuery,
WordPress, HTML5, and Facebook. We believe it is important to integrate
this new world of web development into any web development textbook.
■ Sophisticated, realistic, and engaging case studies. Rather than using
simplistic “Hello World” style web projects, this book makes extensive use
of three case studies: an art store, a travel photo sharing community, and a
customer relations management system. For all the case studies, supporting
material such as the business cases, use cases, design documentation, visual
design, images, and databases are included. We have found that students
are more enthusiastic and thus work significantly harder with attractive and
realistic cases.
■ Comprehensive coverage of a modern Internet development platform. In
order to create any kind of realistic Internet application, readers require
detailed knowledge of and practice with a single specific Internet development
platform. This book covers HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and the LAMP stack
(that is, Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Other important technologies
covered include jQuery, XML, WordPress, Bootstrap, and a variety of thirdparty
APIs that include Facebook, Twitter, and Google and Bing Maps.
■ Content presentation suitable for visually oriented learners. As long-time
instructors, the authors are well aware that today’s students are often
extremely reluctant to read long blocks of text. As a result, we have tried to make the content visually pleasing and to explain complicated ideas not only
through text but also through diagrams.
■ Content that is the result of over twenty years of classroom experience (in
college, university, and adult continuing education settings) teaching web
development. The book’s content also reflects the authors’ deep experience
engaging in web development work for a variety of international clients.
■ Tutorial-driven programming content available online. Rather than using
long programming listings to teach ideas and techniques, this book uses
a combination of illustrations, short color-coded listings, and separate
tutorial exercises. These step-by-step tutorials are not contained within the
book, but are available online at www.pearsonhighered.com/connolly-hoar.
Throughout the book you will find frequent links to these tutorial exercises.
■ Complete pedagogical features for the student. Each chapter includes learning
objectives, margin notes, links to step-by-step tutorials, advanced tips,
keyword highlights, end-of-chapter review questions, and three different case
study exercises