CO32037 Server Side Web Languages

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For Perl: Perl Overview
Chapter 1 from "Learning Perl"
On-line Perl book
Printed: Elizabeth Castro's "Perl and Cgi for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide", Addison-Wesley.

For PHP: manual

You should have some prerequisite knowledge of programming and HTML in order to take this class.
Perl: Basic Operators, (answers1); Logic and Control Structures, (answers2); Arrays, (answers3)
HTML: HTML Intro, HTML Tags, HTML Forms,

Week	Topics	Practicals	Resources	Readings
1	Introduction to Perl (pdf) SSWL Applications and Languages (pdf)	Introduction	Help: Unix, remote access, PHP on PC	Prechelt: An empirical comparison ... (Pdf) IEEE Computer 33(10):23-29, 2000. Gousios: A comparison ... SANE 2002.
2	CGI/Web Forms, Greeting Cards (pdf)	Perl 1, answers1; PHP 1, answers1	Perl: CGI.pm, HTML::Template.pm
3	Regular Expressions (pdf)	Perl 2, answers2; PHP 2, answers2	Basic RE syntax	Optional: Wikipedia entry for regular expressions
4	Environment, Security (pdf)	Perl 3, answers3; PHP 3 answers3		WWW Security FAQ, Environment Variables
5	Maintaining State, Cookies (pdf)	Perl 4, answers4; PHP 4 answers4	Perl: CGI::Session.pm Perl subroutines (answers)
6	Libraries, Mysql, Graphics (pdf)	Perl 5; PHP 5	Perl: CPAN
7	HTTP protocol, Web Crawlers (pdf)	Perl 6
8	Applications: Search Engines (pdf), Login and Registration (pdf)	Coursework		Search Tools Shopping Carts
9	Reading Week No supervised tutorials. Use the time to catch up or to finish the coursework.
10	Security continued (pdf)	Coursework
11	Information Architecture (pdf)	Coursework demonstrations
12	Revision, Exam Preparation	Optional: Perl Objects, answers