Department of Information and Computing Sciences

INFOB2WT - Web technology

(Period III, 2016-2017)

Useful online resources

General Sources

• Mozilla Developer Network
• W3Schools
• W3C Markup Validation Service
• W3C CSS Validation Service

History of the Internet and the Web

• History of Internet from computerhistory.org
• History of Internet from internetsociety.org
• A Very Short History Of The Internet And The Web from forbes.com
• As we may think
• Mother of all demos

Internet architecture, standards and protocols

• OSI Model
• Understanding TCP/IP Basics/
• HTTP made really easy
• URI and URL

Markup (HTML, CSS)

• W3Schools's HTML5 tutorial
• W3Schools's CSS3 tutorial
• Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group

Client side scripting

• W3Schools JavaScript Tutorial
• One of multiple online JavaScript tutorials. This one is very detailed, though.
• Gory details about types and type conversions in JavaScript
• W3Schools JavaScript DOM Tutorial
• Event handling: Intro, Order
• JavaScript Callback Functions: Tutorial 1, Tutorial 2 (using minions).
• Multiple JQuery examples and use-cases. A bit outdated, but still useful.
• How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
• W3Schools JQuery Tutorial

Client-server programming: General Concepts

• Software architectures
• Wikipedia's HTTP Cookie
• W3School JSON Tutorial
• W3School AJAX Tutorial

Node.js

• Step-by-styp guide for getting started
• Anatomy of an HTTP Transaction with Node.js
• Just Connect it Already (Intro to Connect.JS)
• Understanding Express.js
• Routing with Express.js
• Writing own middleware for Express.js apps
• Error handling in Express.js
• Web-sessions

Social Web

• What is Web 2.0
• Social Web on Wikipedia
• Web 2.0 on Wikipedia

Semantic Web

• The Semantic Web By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila
• RDF on Wikipedia
• RDF on wikipedia
• RDF standard
• RDF Schema on Wikipedia
• OWL on Wikipedia
• Structured data with schema.org
• Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

Adaptive Web

• Personalised search
• Google personalised search
• Adaptive hypermedia
• Recommender systems
• User profiles for personalized information access
• From Adaptive Hypermedia to the Adaptive Web

Security

• OWASP Top 10 List
• A comprehensive tutorial on Cross-site Scripting
• SQL Injection
• Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling
• Unsafe direct object referencing

Interesting Ideas

• The Web We Have to Save