Course Structure - Topics & Order

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Stage 1 Topics




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1. List of names of products -
   Web Client (aka Web Browser) - IE, Firefox, Chrome
   Web Server - IIS (used with asp.net), Tomcat (used with JSP), Apache (used with PHP)
   Database Server - SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, SQLite
   
   (Pull up Naukri.com and list the items that are needed to be learnt by a ASP.Net Developer)
   
   Technologies that an ASP.NET Developer needs to know - ASP.NET WebForms, jQuery, SQL Server
   
   Other .NET related technologies - ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, Winforms, WPF, Sharepoint, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, nHibernate, Windows Phone 7
   
   
2. Install Visual Web Developer Express 2010 - (make a screencast and give URL as link)
   
   
3. Starting off with VS Web Developer - Creating a Project, Compiling, Building, and launching test page using VS Web Developer
   
   
4. HTML & CSS & some Javascript; URLs; DIV & SPAN; Introduce "Inspect Element" in Chrome - create a login page using HTML, table (to order elements), button click in javascript
   
   
5. C# basics; Data Types (Convert from String to Int, Int to String); String manipulation (Concatenation)
   
   
6. Debugging using VS Web Developer (show how to insert Breakpoints)
   
   
7. Build a Login page using only Server Controls; Validation (Simple) should be there;
   Event Handlers, Page Life Cycle (Page_Load followed by Button_Click event handler etc; Breakpoints need to be placed at both of them to illustrate when each will happen;
   
   Postback needs to be explained
   
   
8. Web Controls
   Textbox - Textbox properties - w3schools.com
   Checkbox - Checkbox documentation at w3schools.com
   http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/aspnet_refwebcontrols.asp
   
   
9. Data Controls using cdcatalog.xml examples at w3schools.com
   http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/showasp.asp?filename=demo_datalist1
   http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/aspnet_datalist.asp
   
   
10. ADO.NET (This topic is the meat of the Course. By now, students should have installed VS Web Developer Express at least)
    - Basic SQL (Select, Update, Insert, Delete statements)
    - Working with SQL Server Express edition
    - Data Controls & Data Source controls
    



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Stage 2 Topics




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11. Using a 3rd party DLL (Adding a Reference...iText could probably be used as an example)
    
    
12. Javascript, jQuery
    
    
13. Regular Expressions
    
    
14. Validations (Advanced)
    
    
15. Sessions
    
    
16. What is a QueryString ?
    
    
17. AJAX, jQuery UI
    
    
18. web.config, global.asax
    
    
19. Stored procs, Cursors, CTEs, Triggers in T-SQL
    



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Stage 3 Topics




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20. Definitions of Client & Server - Intro to Web Programming
    Intro to Web as a Plaform - MSDN article
    
    
21. Firebug; HTTP protocol as a communication medium between a web client (browser - IE, Chrome, Firefox) and a web server (IIS, Apache, Tomacat) - Intro to Web Programming
    
    
22. Cookies
    
    
23. XML, XSLT, XPATH (YQL can be used to show examples of XPATH; FirePATH can be used also)
    
    
24. copy a website using Firebug/Chrome developer tools
    
    
25. Caching
    
    
26. Authentication
    
    
27. LINQ, LINQ to SQL
    
    
28. Using Razor syntax without MVC
    

Intro to Web Programming - 1

There are essentially 2 types of network applications —

• client-server E.g. websites
  
• peer-to-peer E.g. Skype, Instant Messaging/Chat
  

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CLIENT - a software application
E.g. - web browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome)

SERVER - a software application
E.g. - web server (IIS, Tomcat, Apache)
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To contact SERVER , CLIENT needs to know -
1. on which machine the SERVER is running
2. on which Port the SERVER is listening (The Port is also necessary because 1 machine can host more than 1 SERVER software. For e.g. we can have the Web Server, Database Server, Email (SMTP) Server running on the same machine, but listening on different ports.

Server 'hosted' on the same machine. In that case, each SERVER software listens for requests on a particular port.

Example - by typing a URL (e.g http://www.cricinfo.com) in a browser's address bar, we tell the browser (CLIENT) the above 2 pieces of information i.e. which machine and port to

connect to.

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CLIENT and SERVER can be located on same machine or on different machines
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Web browser and Web Server Communication

CLIENT - makes a Http Request
SERVER - responds with a Http Response

Fiddler example
- use Request Builder to make a Http Request
- use Inspectors to see the Request and Response
- change User Agent Strings by changing the Rules -> User Agents setting

Show different User Agent Strings at - http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Chrome/

Chrome - Inspect Element screen

We can copy a website using Firebug/Chrome developer tools

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