CMPS183 Spring 2010: Reading

Each week has a set of required and optional readings. Students are expected to read all required readings by the date marked on the syllabus. Optional readings provide additional perspective and depth on the material.

There are two textbooks that contain assigned reading for the class (links only work at on-campus computer, or via Sluglink proxy):

PHP and MySQL Web Development, Third Edition, Luke Welling, Laura Thomson, SAMS, 2005 (there is a PDF version that can be downloaded).
XML in a Nutshell, Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means, Third Edition O'Reilly, 2004.

Additional books that are worth reading (complimentary to the topics covered, links only work at on-campus computer, or via Sluglink proxy):

Learning JavaScript, 2nd Edition, by Shelley Powers
Designing Web Navigation, 1st Edition, by James Kalbach
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 3rd Edition, by Peter Morville; Louis Rosenfeld
Programming the Semantic Web, 1st Edition, Toby Segaran; Colin Evans; Jamie Taylor
Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, by Steve Krug
User-Centered Web Site Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach (Paperback) by Daniel D. McCrackenDaniel D. McCracken, Rosalee J. Wolfe, Jared M. Spool (check with library)
XSLT Cookbook, 2nd edition, Sal Mangano, O'Reilly, 2005

Some readings for the class are not found in these texts. These readings are available in digital form from the course website. Directions on accessing these materials will be given in class, and can also be obtained by emailing the Professor.

Week 1: Pre-Web Hypertext Systems and Data Models

Required:

Hypermedia, Chapter 2 of Hypermedia and the Web, David Lowe, Wendy Hall, Wiley, 1999, pp. 25-52.
Chapter 4 (Locations, Placements, and Interconnections) of From Web to Workplace, Kaj Gronbaek, Randall H. Trigg, MIT Press, 1999, pp. 47-60.
Wikipedia: Hypermedia
Wikipedia: Hypertext
Software Development Methodology
HTML Tutorial (walk through basic sections, Introduction, until HTML Quick List)

Optional:

As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly, July, 1945.
Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework, D. C. Engelbart, Summary Report for Contract AF49(638)-1024, 1962.
The Xanadu Vision, Ted Nelson.
Vannevar Bush and the Memex, in Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Literary Theory and Technology, George Landow, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1992, pp. 14-18.
Uniform Comparison of Data Models Using Containment Modeling, Jim Whitehead, Proc. Hypertext 2001, College Park, MD, June 11-15, 2002, pp. 182-191.
As We Do Write, Jim Whitehead, 2002.
KMS: A Distributed Hypermedia System for Managing Knowledge in Organizations, Robert M. Akscyn, Donald L. McCracken, Elise A. Yoder, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 31, No. 7, July, 1988, pp. 820-835.
Reflections on Notecards: Seven Issues for the Next Generation of Hypertext Systems, Frank G. Halasz, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 31, No. 7, July, 1988, pp. 836-852.
Intermedia: The Concept and Construction of a Seamless Information Environment, Nicole Yankelovich, Bernard J. Haan, Norman K. Meyrowitz, Steven M. Drucker, IEEE Computer, Vol. 21, No. 1, January 1988, pp. 81-96.
Hypertext: Behind the Hype. ERIC Digest
Historical overview of Hypertext
Architectural Component of Hypertext Systems
Spatial Hypertext: An Alternative to Navigational and Semantic Links
Scrum Alliance
Articles on Scrum
Video: History of the Internet

Week 2: Web Application Requirements and Frameworks, HTML Forms, JavaScript (Part 1)

Required:

Chapter 7 ("Prototyping") of User-Centered Website Development
Client Needs and the Design Process in Web Projects, D. B. Lowe, J. Eklund, Journal of Web Engineering, vol. 1, no. 1, October 2002, pp. 23-36.
Wikipedia: Web application framework
Wikipedia: Comparison of web application frameworks
Wikipedia: Javascript
Wikipedia: Javascript Syntax

Optional:

Chapter 1 Introduction of Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques, Gerald Kotonya, Ian Sommerville, John Wiley & Sons, 1998, pp. 3-23.
Chapter 3 (sections 3.1, 3.2 only) on Requirements Elicitation and Analysis, in Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques, Gerald Kotonya, Ian Sommerville, John Wiley & Sons, 1998, pp. 53-73.
Chapter 1 (Foundations) of The Art & Science of Web Design
Prototyping: Picking the Right Tool
Building a Web application - Requirements Gathering (Example)
Sample List of prioritized requirements for a web application
UIDesign.net - Site Redesign - Gathering Requirements
Web Site User Centered Design: Techniques for Gathering Requirements and Tasks
Site Diagrams: Mapping an Information Space
Video: Better Web application framework
JavaScript tutorial

Week 3: JavaScript (Part 2), Cascading Style Sheets

Required:

Chapter 13 (Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)) in XML in a Nutshell

Optional:

Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd edition, Eric Meyer, O'Reilly, March 2004.

Week 4: XML, Introduction to PHP

Required:

Chapter 1 (Introducing XML), Chapter 2 (XML Fundamentals), and Chapter 3 (Document Type Definitions (DTDs) in XML in a Nutshell
Chapter 1 (PHP Crash Course), Chapter 6 (Object-Oriented PHP) in PHP and MySQL Web Development

Optional:

What Do XML Documents Look Like?, Norman Walsh, XML.com, October 3, 1998.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Edition), Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler, Franois Yergeau, W3C Recommendation REC-xml, February 4, 2004.
Namespaces in XML, Tim Bray, Dave Hollander, Andrew Layman, W3C Recommendation REC-xml-names, January 14, 1999.
PHP web site
PHP Manual, by Mehdi Achour, Friedhelm Betz, Antony Dovgal, Nuno Lopes, Philip Olson, Georg Richter, Damien Seguy, Jakub Vrana, and others.

Week 5: XML Parsing, Object Oriented PHP

Required:

Chapter 18 (Programming Models) and Chapter 20 (Simple API for XML (SAX)) in XML in a Nutshell
Chapter 19 (Document Object Model (DOM)) in XML in a Nutshell
Chapter 20 (Simple API for XML (SAX)) in XML in a Nutshell
Chapter 6 (Object-Oriented PHP) in PHP and MySQL Web Development

Optional:

What is Software Architecture? (Chapter 1), and Evaluating a Software Architecture (Chapter 2), of Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies, by Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, Mark Klein, Addison-Wesley, 2002, pages 1-16, 19-42.

Week 6: Forms and Session Management in PHP, CodeIgniter Framework, Information Design, Web Architectures and Standards

Required

Chapter 20 (Using Session Control in PHP) of PHP and MySQL Web Development
Sections 6.2 (HTTP Language Elements) and 2.6 (Cookies) of Web Protocols and Practice, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jennifer Rexford, Addison-Wesley, 2001.
Chapter 3 (Web Proxies) of Web Protocols and Practice, pages 59-64 (through Section 3.3)
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (read to the start of Section 1.6)
CodeIgniter Introduction (read Getting Started, CodeIgniter at a glance, Supported Features, Application Flow Chart, Model View Controller, Architectural Goals)

Optional:

Chatper 6 ("Navigation") of User-Centered Website Development
Chapter 9 (Development Techniques) of Hypermedia and the Web, David Lowe, Wendy Hall, Wiley, 1999, pp. 296-326.
HTTP Working Group
Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J.C. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P. Leach, T. Berners-Lee, Internet Draft Standard Request for Comments (RFC) 2616, June, 1999.
HTTP State Management Mechanism, D. Kristol, L. Montulli, Internet Proposed Standard Request for Comments (RFC) 2109, February 1997.
Wikipedia: Representational State Transfer (REST)

Week 7: UML, HTTP Caching, Database-backed Web Applications & Security

Required:

Classes, Objects, and Their Relationships, Chapter 4 of UML Toolkit, Hans-Erik Eriksson and Magnus Penker, John Wiley, 1998, p. 65-117.
Chapter 10 (Accessing Your MySQL Database from the Web with PHP) in PHP and MySQL Web Development
SQL Injection Attacks by Example, Steve Friedl, Unixwiz.net Tech Tip.

Optional:

Chapter 12 (Database Management Systems) in Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing, Philip Greenspun, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.

Week 8: XPath, XSLT, Web Services, Ajax

Required:

Chapter 9 (XPath) in XML in a Nutshell
Chapter 8 (XSL Transformations) in XML in a Nutshell
Wikipedia: Ajax programming
Wikiepdia: Ajax framework
Walk through XPath tutorial and XSL tutorial

Optional:

XSLT Cookbook, 2nd edition, Sal Mangano, O'Reilly, 2005. (Link only works at on-campus computer, or via Sluglink proxy)
zvon.org XPath tutorial, includes an interactive XPath evaluator where you can enter XPath expressions and visually see which nodes are selected.
Dan Olteanu's XPath Tutorial - A slide deck describing XPath

Week 9: Web Services, SOAP, JSON

Required:

Chapter 31 (Connecting to Web Services with XML and SOAP) in PHP and MySQL Web Development
Wikipedia: Web services
Wikipedia: SOAP
Wikipedia: JSON
Wikipedia: Javascript frameworks
Wikipedia: jQUery
jQuery documentation (Getting Started, API reference, UI reference)

Optional:

Building XML Web Services with PHP NuSOAP by Ahm Asaduzzaman
A Web Services Primer, Venu Vasudevan, April 4, 2001.
SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1: Messaging Framework, Martin Gudgin, Marc Hadley, Noah Mendelsohn, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, W3C Recommendation, June 24, 2003.
XML Protocol Working Group of the W3C
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1, Erik Christensen, Francisco Curbera, Greg Meredith, Sanjiva Weerawarana, W3C Note, March 15, 2001.
Web Services Description Working Group of the W3C

Week 10: Semantic Web overview, Project Presentations

Required:

Read:Wikipedia: Semantic Web

Optional: