Internet Script Programming

Course Code

NEST 250

Academic Year

2016-2017

This course is about the underlying architecture of web-based Internet applications. Web pages consist of text marked up by HTML or XHTML along with CSS. It makes sense that certain actions be handled on the user?s machine (the client) and this is accomplished within the web page using a C like language known as JavaScript. User requests are handled at the Server using CGI scripts. Additionally, at the back end there is often a database that both stores user provided information sent from the client and retrieves requested information as part of a new web page. Our goal is to understand how these pieces of technology fit together so that the student can set up, explain, troubleshoot and maintain a working Web-based environment. A minimum programming background is required in order to construct some basic examples.