Fundamentals of Web Development, 2nd edition

Help students master the fundamentals of web development

• Covers both front and back end web development.
  • REVISED! Revisions to overall layout, including several new section types, better guide the reader and help readers distinguish advanced topics from more introductory material, allowing students to focus at a level appropriate for their learning.
• Focuses on today’s reality of web development and prepares students to anticipate future trends.
  • EXPANDED! Substantial increase in the book’s coverage of JavaScript.
  • EXPANDED! Increased coverage to reflect changes in HTML, CSS, and PHP over the past three years.
  • NEW! New content addresses increasingly popular areas such as CSS3, version control, NoSQL, new tools, virtualisation, and analytics.
  • NEW! New content covering the most vital trends and innovation in the field since 2013.
• Comprehensive coverage of modern internet development platforms including HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, and the LAMP stack (that is, Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP).
  • Other important technologies covered include jQuery, XML, WordPress, Bootstrap, and a variety of third party APIs that include Facebook, Twitter, and Google and Bing Maps.
• The text is the result of over twenty years of classroom experience (in college, university, and adult continuing education settings) teaching web development.

Complete pedagogical features for the student

• Each chapter includes learning objectives, margin notes, links to step by step tutorials, advanced tips, keyword highlights, end of chapter review questions, and three different case study exercises.
  • UPDATED! Enhanced or created anew end-of-chapter projects, in-chapter exercises and listings, and additional online learning materials bring the content up-to-date.
  • Sophisticated, realistic, and engaging case studies. This book makes extensive use of three case studies: an art store, a travel photo sharing community, and a customer relations management system.
• • For all the case studies, supporting material such as the business cases, use cases, design documentation, visual design, images, and databases are included.
• Content presentation is visually pleasing and explains complicated ideas not only through text but also through diagrams.

About the Book

Updates and enhancements in this edition include:

• Increased coverage of JavaScript, from two chapters in the previous edition to four chapters in this edition.
• Revisited and expanded coverage to reflect changes in HTML, CSS, and PHP over the past three years.
• Additional new content in several chapters to address increasingly popular areas like CSS3, version control, NoSQL, new tools, virtualization, and analytics (among others).
• Restructuring or small improvements (and bug fixes) to existing content.
• Revisions to the overall layout, including several new section types that better guide the reader with advice.
• Some changes to the page layout to help readers distinguish advanced topics from more introductory material, allowing students to focus at a level appropriate for their learning.
• All end-of-chapter projects, many of the in-chapter exercises and listings, and additional online learning materials have been revisited, enhanced, or created anew to bring them up-to-date with the changes made throughout the book.