SET09103 Advanced Web Technologies

This is an advanced class. You must have prerequisite knowledge of server-side programming and HTML in order to take this class.

Here are some links for introductory and reference materials, in case you need to refresh your knowledge. You can use either PHP or Perl for this class.
PHP: Tutorial, manual.
Perl: Tutorial.
HTML: HTML Intro, HTML Forms, HTML Cheatsheet.
Unix: list of commands.

Note: the answers are in text files. If they don't display properly, use "View source" on the file.

Week	Topics	Practicals	Resources	Readings
2	Introduction and What is Web 2.0? (pdf), Revision of basic web technologies (pdf)	Introduction, PHP exercises, answers OR: Perl exercises, answers	software downloads Socweb/DCS Unix help	Tim O'Reilly: What is Web 2.0
3	Server-side graphics (pdf)	Graphics exercises, answers	Graphviz; SVG
4	Web Security (pdf)	Security exercises	WWW Security FAQ PHP security
5	XML: structures (pdf)	XML exercises, answers	XML tutorial Perl XML XML DTD Quick Reference (pdf)
6	XML: tools and extensions (pdf)	DOM/SAX exercises, answers	DOM Cheatsheet (pdf)
7	Rich Internet Applications AJAX (pdf), More AJAX (pdf)	AJAX exercises, answers	Wikipedia: Javascript, AJAX XMLHttpRequest Examples: Google	AJAX: A New Approach to Web Applications
8	Regular Expressions (pdf)	PHP exercises, answers OR: Perl exercises, answers	special characters Basic RE syntax Wikipedia: regular expressions
9	Reading Week. No lecture.
10	Unicode and XSL (pdf)	Coursework Unicode exercises	Unicode
11	Web services (pdf) More Web services (pdf)	Coursework demonstrations PHP exercises	PHP example Perl examples Generic soap client
12	Advanced Topics: The Semantic Web (pdf)	Coursework demonstrations Protege exercises	Protege Loggerhead turtle	Berners-Lee: The Semantic Web
13	Revision, Exam Preparation