Welcome to SET09103 Advanced Web Technologies!

This first tutorial serves as a preparation. It allows you to check whether you have all the prerequisite knowledge you need for this module and whether your computer account is working. If you find that you are lacking some prerequisite knowledge, please, use this week and next week to catch up. If there are any problems with your Napier computer account, please, contact C&IT as soon as possible.

Decide which programming language you want to use

You can use any programming language of your choice, but only PHP and Perl will be supported by the lecturer.

Check your computer account

Please, login to the account you want to use for server-side programming. and check the following: If you are using the School of Computing (DCS/socweb) server and have questions about it, have a look at the Unix/telnet help. (This link is also on the module website.)

Check your programming skills

Below are two exercises, which help you to get back into web programming in case you haven't done it for a while. If you have problems with the first exercise, have a look at the links for "HTML Intro, HTML Tags, HTML Forms" on the module website. If you cannot complete this exercise during this tutorial, you may not have sufficient prerequisite knowledge for this module. Please, talk to the module leader about this.

If you have problems with the second exercise, do the PHP (or Perl) exercises for this week (on the module website). They will remind you how to create scripts. If you cannot get any script to work at all during this tutorial, you may not have sufficient prerequisite knowledge for this module. Please, talk to the module leader about this.

Any questions?

If you have any questions about this module, please, ask Uta Priss (the module leader). But, please, be patient. In the first tutorial there are often some problems with students' accounts etc which need to be sorted.