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Before a single line of PHP, JSP, or C# is written, this book grounds every chapter in one clear mental model: what actually happens between typing a URL and a page rendering on your screen — then proves that model by building the same CRUD application three separate times, once per stack.

Overview

Web Programming (WebPro) opens with the client-server model and the HTTP request-response cycle — DNS lookups, requests, responses — and HTML, CSS and JavaScript fundamentals, closed out with a real take-home website project. It then runs the same core exercise three times over in three different technology stacks: PHP with MySQL (moving from raw PHP to the MVC pattern via Laravel), Java with JSP (fundamentals, a full CRUD walkthrough, and XML/JSON data handling), and ASP.NET Web Forms (GridView, ADO.NET, validation, and state management). Each stack closes with its own small, real take-home project — Quiz 1, a Midterm, Quiz 2, and a Final Exam — so the course is graded on working applications, not multiple-choice recall.

What You Will Learn

• Explain precisely what happens between typing a URL and a rendered page — DNS resolution, the HTTP request-response cycle, client vs. server responsibilities.
• Structure content with HTML and style and script it with CSS and JavaScript.
• Build a working PHP + MySQL CRUD application, and see why an MVC framework like Laravel exists.
• Build the same kind of application again with Java JSP, including working with XML and JSON.
• Build it a third time with ASP.NET Web Forms, using GridView, ADO.NET, validation, and state management.
• Compare three real web stacks by having actually built the same problem in each one, not by reading about them.

Inside the Book

1. Foundations of the Web: How a Web Page Actually Gets to Your Screen — DNS, HTTP, and the client-server model, before any code.
2. HTML: Structuring Content for the Web — semantic markup as the skeleton every later chapter builds on.
3. CSS & JavaScript Basics — styling and first interactivity in the browser.
4. Quiz 1: A Small, Real Take-Home Website Project — a real static-site build, graded as working software.
5. PHP Basics — server-side scripting fundamentals.
6. PHP + MySQL — a first real database-backed CRUD application.
7. PHP MVC & Laravel — why structure matters once an application grows, introduced through Laravel.
8. Midterm: A Small, Real Take-Home PHP + MySQL + MVC Project — the PHP track’s capstone exercise.
9. JSP Fundamentals — the same web-application problem, restarted in Java.
10. JSP CRUD Walkthrough — a complete CRUD application built step by step in JSP.
11. XML & JSON — structured data exchange between systems.
12. Quiz 2: A Small, Real Take-Home JSP Project — the Java track’s capstone exercise.
13. ASP.NET & Web Forms — the third stack, and Microsoft’s take on server-side web development.
14. GridView & ADO.NET — displaying and editing database data the ASP.NET way.
15. Validation & State Management — keeping a Web Forms application correct and coherent across requests.
16. Final Exam: A Small, Real Take-Home ASP.NET Web Forms Project — the course’s closing capstone, across the third stack.