COAP:COAP-2100/week2-2011

Week 2

Topics Covered

• What do we mean by the Internet ?
• Web markup, HTTP and web applications
• Your development environment (Web browser and text editor)
• Introduction to XHTML
• Validation services (if time left)

Teaching materials

What do we mean by the Internet ?

• Slides used: internet-intro.pdf
• Internet tutorial (first part of the slides above spelled out ...)

Configuring your Web browser with extensions

• Browser extension

Text and HTML editors

• Text editor (definition and pointers to recommended editors)
• Web authoring systems (a list of web editing tools)
• At Webster, the "official" text editor is NoteTab light: http://www.notetab.com/

See also XML editors, an alternative for XHTML editing

HTML and XHTML

• HTML and XHTML elements and attributes‎‎
• HTML and XHTML (for background information)

You also may either consult the Reference book (Deitel) or do an online tutorial. Recommended:

• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/HyperText_Markup_Language
• http://www.w3schools.com/html (part 1) followed by /http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/ (W3C Schools tutorial)
• HTML links includes pointers for other online tutorials

HTML elements reference

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element

Classroom activities

Monday

• Q/R HomeWork 1
• Lecture: What do we mean by Internet and the World-Wide Web
• Browser configuration

Wednesday

• Introduction to XHTML
• Coding with NoteTab light
• Validation
• Adding/editing HTML fragments to/in on-line services with through the web editors

Homework

• TBA on Wednesday. You will have to hand-code (X)HTML contents.