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