Basic Web Technologies

This will be an 8 week class covering basic web technologies. If you want to make a website or have a friend that wants you to, utilize this class to learn.

Requirements:

• Laptop (computer of some kind)
• Familiarity with basic computer usage, Windows or Apple environments or linux (Linux is a plus, but not required).
• Pen/Pencil and paper for note taking

Synopsis:

• Class 1: General Principles
• Course Intro
• Why should I listen to a guy named r00ster?
• Scope of course (LAMP stack)
• Open Source vs. Proprietary (the abridged version - not getting into any debates here)
• Components of web
• What is the web?
• What is a browser?
• What is a server?
• What is a database?
• Operating systems that make up the web
• Which operating system should I use for web development?
• A quick word on technology stacks
• Review of web languages (short introduction)
• Compiled languages vs. scripted languages (...again, not gonna get into debates)
• Fundamental
• HTML
• XHTML
• HTML5
• DocTypes
• CSS
• CSS3
• Javascript
• XML/JSON
• Proprietary languages
• Open Source Languages
• "Hello World" (hands-on/demo portion of website)
• Resources
• Open Discussion