Web Application Development

Paper Code: 
MCA 322
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

 

  • To understand the concepts and architecture of the Worldwide Web.
  • To understand and practice markup languages
  • To understand and practice embedded dynamic scripting on client side Internet Programming
  • To understand and practice web development techniques on client-side and server-side.
  • To understand the concepts and architecture of the Worldwide Web.
  • To understand and practice markup languages
  • To understand and practice embedded dynamic scripting on client side Internet Programming
  • To understand and practice web development techniques on client-side and server-side.
10.00
Unit I: 

Introduction to WWW: Internet standards, WWW Architecture, Generation of dynamic web pages, Generation of static webpages using HTML, Elements of HTML syntax, Head and Body sections, Building HTML documents, Inserting text, images, hyperlinks, Backgrounds and Color Control, meta tags, ordered and unordered lists, Table Handling: Table layout & presentation, constructing tables in a web page, Frames: Developing Web pages using frames. Forms and its elements, special tags, HTML5 Specific Elements: Header & Footer, Navigation, Section, Article & Aside, The Meter Element, Video, Audio.

 

10.00
Unit II: 

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS): The need for CSS, Introduction to CSS, Basic syntax and structure, Inline Styles, Embedding Style Sheets, Linking External Style Sheets, Backgrounds, Manipulating text, Margins and Padding, Border, Positioning using CSS, Selectors, Tag selectors, class selectors, ID Selector, Styling Groups within tags, Formatting Tables and Forms, CSS3 Specific Properties: Alpha Color Space, Opacity, Box Shadow & Border Radius.

12.00
Unit III: 

JavaScript: JavaScript Variables and Data Types, Statement and Operators, Control Structure, Functions, Executing deferred scripts, Objects, Messaging in a JavaScript, Dialog Boxes, Alert Boxes, Confirm Boxes, Prompt Boxes, JavaScript with HTML, Events, Events Handlers, Forms, Forms array, Forms Handling and Validations, Introduction to JSP and JDBC.

14.00
Unit IV: 

Ajax and jQuery: Introduction to Ajax, Hidden Frames and iframes, Cross-Browser DOM, JavaScript, ECMAScript, and Jscript, Tabular Information, Forms, Advantages and Disadvantages, Ajax the jQuery way: using load, post, get functions, Formatting Data  and Processing Data through server, Handling Errors, jQuery: jQuery Basics, Selecting Element with jQuery, Managing Events, Hiding and Showing Elements, Toggling visibility using jQuery.

 

14.00
Unit V: 

PHP: Introduction, How web works, setting up the environment (XAMPP Server), Programming Basics, Print/echo, Variables and Constants, Strings and Arrays, Operators, Control Structures and Looping Structures, Functions, Reading Data in Web Pages, Embedding PHP with HTML, Establishing connectivity with MySQL database.

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 

 

  • Harvey & Paul Deitel & Associates, Harvey Deitel and Abbey Deitel, “Internet and World Wide Web - How to Program”, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2011.
  • Achyut S Godbole and Atul Kahate, “Web Technologies”, Second Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2012.
  • David Sawyer McFarland, “JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual”, Second Edition, O’Reilly Media, 2011.
  • Anthony T. Holdener III, “Ajax: The Definitive Guide”, O’Reilly Media, First edition, 2008.
  • Mike McGrath, “PHP & MySQL in easy Steps”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2012.
  • Harvey & Paul Deitel & Associates, Harvey Deitel and Abbey Deitel, “Internet and World Wide Web - How to Program”, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2011.
  • Achyut S Godbole and Atul Kahate, “Web Technologies”, Second Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2012.
  • David Sawyer McFarland, “JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual”, Second Edition, O’Reilly Media, 2011.
  • Anthony T. Holdener III, “Ajax: The Definitive Guide”, O’Reilly Media, First edition, 2008.
  • Mike McGrath, “PHP & MySQL in easy Steps”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2012.
REFERENCES: 
  • Thomas A Powell, Fritz Schneider, “JavaScript: The Complete Reference”, Third Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2013.
  • David Flanagan, “JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition”, O'Reilly Media, 2011
  • Steven Holzner, “The Complete Reference - PHP”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2008
  • David Sawyer McFarland, “CSS3- The Missing Manual”, O'Reilly Media, Third Edition, 2013
  • David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg, “PHP Cookbook”, Third Edition, O’Reilly Media, 2014.
Academic Year: 
2016-17
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