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, virtualization, 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.
• Tutorial-driven programming content available online. These step-by-step tutorials use a combination of illustrations, short color-coded listings, and separate tutorial exercises. They are not contained within the book, but are available online to owners of the book at www.pearsonhighered.com/cs-resources.

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.
• Code listings available online. Many of the code listings used in the book are publicly available on GitHub (https://github.com/rconnolly/funwebdev-2nd-codelistings) and on CodePen (http://codepen.io/randyc9999/collections/public).
• 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.
• Helpful teaching resources for the Instructor. To help make your web development course more teachable, the following resources are available for teachers adopting this book:
• Attractive and comprehensive PowerPoint presentations (one for each chapter)
• Solutions to end-of-chapter exercises and tutorial exercises
• Images and databases for additional case studies not covered in the book
• 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.