Randy Connolly - Fundamentals of Web Development, 2/e

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Connolly, Randy, author. | Hoar, Ricardo, author.

Title: Fundamentals of web development / Randy Connolly, Mount Royal

University, Calgary; Ricardo Hoar, Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Oakville

Description: 2 [edition]. | Includes

bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016054661| ISBN 9780134481265 | ISBN 0134481267

Subjects: LCSH: Web site development.

Classification: LCC TK5105.888 .C658 2017 | DDC 006.7dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016054661

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ISBN 10: 0-13-448126-7

ISBN 13: 978-0-13-448126-5

To the children in my life: Ben, Alex, Hannah, and Mark.

Randy Connolly

To every student working to build a better world

Ricardo Hoar

Welcome to the Fundamentals of Web Development. This textbook is intended to cover the broad range of topics required for modern web development and is suitable for intermediate to upper-level computing students. A significant percentage of the material in this book has also been used by the authors to teach web development principles to first-year computing students and to non-computing students as well.

One of the difficulties that we faced when planning this book is that web development is taught in a wide variety of ways and to a diverse student audience. Some instructors teach a single course that focuses on server-side programming to third-year students; other instructors teach the full gamut of web development across two or more courses, while others might only teach web development indirectly in the context of a networking, HCI, or capstone project course. We have tried to create a textbook that supports learning outcomes in all of these teaching scenarios.

Web development is a term that takes on different meanings depending on the audience and context. In practice, web development requires people with complementary but distinct expertise working together toward a single goal. Whereas a graphic designer might regard web development as the application of good graphic design strategies, a database administrator might regard it as a simple interface to an underlying database. Software engineers and programmers might regard web development as a classic software development task with phases and deliverables, where a systems administrator sees a system that has to be secured from attackers. With so many different classes of user and meanings for the term, it's no wonder that web development is often poorly understood. Too often, in an effort to fully cover one aspect of web development, the other principles are ignored altogether, leaving students without a sense of where their skills fit into the big picture.