lecture notes

The following schedule is tentative. “Reading” is to be completed before the start of class; any “supplement” reading won’t even be mentioned in lecture, but can be helpful for the homeworks. Chapters refer to the Ullman text unless marked “Goldberg”. Recall that the books are accessible on-line via McConnell Libray’s “Safari” catalog.

week#	date	reading	lecture notes	hw
1	Jan.20		client-and-server-1.html; syllabus
2	Jan.25	chpt.10 (functions); skim chpt.6 (control structs)	client-and-server-2.html; php-intro.html; example php program
2	Jan.27		php-intro.html; corner-cases-and-implement-blend.html	hw01: basic php and tests
3	Feb.01	book chpt.1(skim),2 (client-server; strings)	php-types.html; php-strings
3	Feb.03		php-arrays.html; php-arrays-practice.html	hw02: html helper functions
4	Feb.08	book chpt.3 (html input and basic form-handling); supplementary: chpt.4 (handy numeric functions)	forms.html; running-php-on-rucs.html
4	Feb.10	chpt. pp. 99–103 (chpt 5: handline newlines; HTML and PHP); supplementary: the remainder of chpt. 5	form-handle-test-sanitize.html	hw03: form handling
5	Feb.15	chpt.13 (regexps); supplementary: research other `input` tags and their attributes; supplementary chpt. 7 (array functions)	git-on-rucs.html; regexps, start
5	Feb.17		regexps, cont.; structure of validation-code	hw04: server-side validation
6	Feb.22	pp. 205–221 (date&time; sticky; don’t believe everything you read)	sticky.html; date & time; review
6	Feb.24		DOM: looking at in browser; midterm (50min)	sticky forms
7	Feb.29		js refactoring example
7	Mar.02		js-dom-surgery; js-events.html	server-side validation
			spring break!
8	Mar.14	chpt.9, cookies & sessions	cookies.html
8	Mar.16		sessions.html	sessions
9	Mar.21		(unscheduled)
9	Mar.23		db: review ERD; design exercise	db helper functions
10	Mar.28	chpt.12	mysqli-basics.html
10	Mar.30		mysqli-sanitizing.html	storing form info
11	Apr.04	Goldberg chpt.2; urlencode (Ullman p.104)	finish db (adding GET params (read: urlencode (p.104)); prepared statements)
11	Apr.06		xslt-intro	listing, editing previous info
12	Apr.11	goldberg chpt.3,4	finish xslt-intro; xpath-intro
12	Apr.13		xpath-functions	xslt page
13	Apr.18	goldberg chpt.6,8	DTDs: grammar: tags; dtd example
13	Apr.20		DTDs: grammar: attributes; validating DTDs	DTD
14	Apr.25		project demos	project.html
14	Apr.27		project demos; wrap-up/retrospective	project.html

Distance lectures

Note that the distance-section lectures can diverge from the in-class lectures, based on questions people ask, etc.. These recordings are not a substitute for students in the in-class lectures. However, they're posted, because why not?

apr-26 (0h48m) (missing first 30min) [with a few misc notes]: review, and overview of Web Tech

apr-19, part2 (1h03m) DTD (attributes), and design-example
apr-19, part1 (1h05m) DTD (tags), and design-example

apr-12, part2 (0h34m) xpath functions
apr-12, part1 (0h58m) xpath intro: filtering

apr-05, part2 (0h36m) XML as a data format: advantages; examples.
apr-05, part1 (0h56m) XSLT processing: .xsl and .xml; xsl:value-of, xsl:for-each, xsl:choose, and xsl:sort

mar-29, part3 (0h19m) Hashing: when&why to hash; adding salt. (notes)
mar-29, part2 (0h37m) prepared statements (concluded); hashing: a lame non-secure hash function; are there collisions?

mar-22, part2 (0h52m) SQL; SQL-injection (mention prepared statements, but not yet demo'd here)
mar-22, part1 (1h05m) Finish real-world-session-caveats; start DB-access-from-SQL (notes)

mar-15, part2 (1h10m) Cookies and sessions.
mar-15, part1 (0h50m) calling js, and structure of js validation code (notes)
mar-15, part0 (0h13m): Just trying to figure out how to let students share the screen, in breeze!

mar-01, part2 (1h06m) JS-Dom surgery: creating new nodes, inserting them as children in the existing DOM, and setting their attributes.
mar-01, part1 (1h10m) js-intro.txt:
- quick review of some html concepts:
  - em vs i;
  - css (use semantic class-names; prefer class-names over all-tag over id-specific css)
  - span vs div
- DOM: what is it? Examining it.
- Examples of javascript which modifies the DOM

feb-23, part2 (1h05m) sticky forms, and the structure of sticky forms. (with an example of sticky-pulldown.txt).
feb-23, part1 (0h55m) backslashes in input strings; regular expressions practice; backslashes in regular expressions; (notes in regexp-sample.txt).

feb-16, part2 (1h16m) Finish regular expressions. Discuss the structure of server-side validation code (notes in validation-structure.txt).
feb-16, part1 (1h06m) regular expressions [with bad connection near the end] (notes in regexp-sample.txt).

feb-09, part2 (1h08m) finish html injection (0:00:00–0:13:00s);
testing forms w/o using the web (0:13:00–0:27:00);
discuss intro to git (0:27:00–0:56:40);
review/remind sanitizing, and: what format to save info? (0:57:00 to end)
Improved git video: What is Version Control, and the Git distributed workflow 0:12:30; Demoing git (centralized workflow, and one conflict) 0:16:50
feb-09, part1 (1h20m) and submitting forms; sanitizing html input

feb-02, part2 (1h10m) forms intro
feb-02, part1a (16m) and part1b (1h01m); review hw01; practice arrays.

jan-26, part2, (0h42m): arrays and foreach; strings: double-quotes and interpolation.
jan-26, part1, (1h04m) require_once; project overview; types and error_reporting and === instead of ==.

jan-19, part2, (1h05m): client-v-server part II. For Jan.25 (Mon), watch this video, with new material starting at 39:45; it's approximately 20min. of material we didn't talk about back on Jan.20. We won't meet in the classroom this week. More videos will be coming.
jan-19, part1, (1h18m): client-v-server part I; syllabus.

Much appreciated: If you have any improved description or info, please send it to me and I'll add it to this page. E.g.:

“dec24 part2 has dropped audio from 0h:50m-0h:55m”
“dec24 part1 is mostly about parsing, not an intro-to-grammars.”
“dec24 part3 is really only 0h:50m long; there is just 20m of silence at the end.”
“sep15 dist-week03a: for the first half, he says ‘card-rank’ when he really means ‘c-rank’ — possibly confusing since card-rank is an accessor, not a type.”

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