Help students master the fundamentals of web development

Covers both front-end and back-end web development, offering a comprehensive resource that ties together the concepts and the practices of the entire scope of web development.
- EXPANDED - Substantially increased coverage of contemporary JavaScript in the 3rd Edition includes five chapters on both front-end and back-end JavaScript (almost 300 pages versus the 2nd Edition’s three chapters of 170 pages).
- NEW - Dedicated chapters on React (Chapter 11) and Node (Chapter 13) help readers explore these essential skills for contemporary web developers in detail.
Focuses on today’s reality of web development and prepares students to anticipate future trends.
- NEW - New content addresses increasingly popular frameworks such as Bootstrap, React, and WordPress.
- UPDATED/NEW/EXPANDED - Updated, expanded, or new content reflects current approaches and topics, such as CSS preprocessors, CSS design principles, ES6+ language additions, web and browser APIs, TypeScript, SQLite and NoSQL databases, GraphQL, serverless computing, caching, new security vulnerabilities, JWT authentication, DevOps, continuous integration/deployment, and microservice architectures.
Comprehensive coverage of modern internet development platforms includes HTML5, CSS, Javascript, and two server-side stacks (PHP and MySQL, as well as Node and MongoDB). The book also covers the key concepts and infrastructures — such as web protocols and architecture, security, hosting provision, and server administration —that are important learning outcomes for any web development course.
Written with teaching and learning in mind, this text is the result of over twenty-five years of classroom experience teaching web development (in college, university, and adult continuing education settings) and the authors’ experience in web development work for international clients.
- UPDATED - User feedback informs every revision. Existing chapters and topic coverage have been revised based on feedback from instructor focus groups as well as the authors’ own students’ feedback.
- Supports learning outcomes in various teaching scenarios. There are many approaches to teaching web development and this book is intended to support most of these approaches.

Complete pedagogical features support teaching and learning

Student learning resources are available in each chapter, including learning objectives, margin notes, links to step-by-step tutorials, advanced tips, keyword highlights, end-of-chapter review questions, and case study exercises.
- NEW - Test Your Knowledge exercises give students the opportunity to immediately apply their knowledge after the section(s) they have just read.
- NEW - Essential Solutions boxes provide quick guidance on how to accomplish common tasks.
- UPDATED - End-of-chapter projects have been revised or replaced to reflect current trends, topics, and approaches.
Sophisticated, realistic, and engaging case studies include an art store, a travel photo sharing community, a stock trading site, and a movie review site. Supporting material such as visual design, images, and databases are included for all of the case studies.
Tutorials and additional instructional content are available online.
- Step-by-step labs support the topics presented in the book. They are not contained within the book but are available online to owners of the book at www.pearsonhighered.com/cs-resources and https://www.funwebdev.com
- Many of the code listings and examples used in the book are available on GitHub https://github.com/funwebdev-3rd-ed
UPDATED - The visually appealing presentation explains complicated ideas not only through text but also through diagrams, tables, illustrations, and short color-coded source code listings.
Instructor resources help make teaching web development less challenging. The following resources are available to instructors adopting this book:
- Attractive and comprehensive PowerPoint presentations (one for each chapter)
- Solutions to end-of-chapter and tutorial exercises
- Images and databases for all case studies
- Additional questions in the exam bank

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