Web Foundations/Servers and Data

This lesson introduces servers and data.

Internet word cloud

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for this lesson include:

• Identify technologies for enhancing the user's Web experience, including programming languages, multimedia technologies.
• Demonstrate knowledge of languages commonly used to provide database connectivity to Web sites.
• Identify common strategies for managing an end user's experience and improving site creativity.
• Test and analyze Web site performance issues.

Readings

1. Wikipedia: Web server
2. Wikipedia: Web application development
3. Wikipedia: Ajax (programming)

Key Terms

3-D Secure

Ajax

application cache

Application Programming Interface (API)

bandwidth

client

cookie

emulator

mailing list server

manifest

object-based

offline Web application

Smalltalk

Structured Query Language (SQL)

Web application framework

XMLHttpRequest

References

← JavaScript

Web Foundations

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