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Table of Contents

1.1 Web history
1.2 IP addresses, domain names, and URLs
1.3 HTTP
1.4 Web trends
1.5 Introduction to HTML
1.6 Introduction to CSS
1.7 Introduction to JavaScript
1.8 Full-stack development
1.9 Front-end tools

2.1 Web design essentials
2.2 Page structure and layout
2.3 Colors
2.4 Typography
2.5 Imagery

3.1 HTML document structure
3.2 HTML sandbox
3.3 Basic HTML elements
3.4 Comments
3.5 Images
3.6 Links
3.7 Lists
3.8 Tables
3.9 Special characters
3.10 Example: Band webpage

4.1 HTML containers
4.2 Forms
4.3 Common form widgets
4.4 Additional form widgets
4.5 Audio and video
4.6 < script > and < style >
4.7 HTML developer guidelines
4.8 Example: Restaurant Reviews

5.1 Using CSS in HTML
5.2 CSS sandbox
5.3 Basic selectors
5.4 Advanced selectors
5.5 Common properties
5.6 Font and text properties
5.7 Box model
5.8 Example: Styled band webpage

6.1 Flexbox
6.2 Grid layout
6.3 Positioning elements
6.4 Special effects
6.5 Animation
6.6 Styling forms
6.7 Sass
6.8 Example: Styled Restaurant Reviews

7.1 Syntax and variables
7.2 JavaScript sandbox
7.3 Arithmetic
6.4 Conditionals
7.5 More conditionals
7.6 Loops
7.7 Functions
7.8 Scope and the global object
7.9 Arrays
7.10 Objects
7.11 Maps
7.12 String object
7.13 Date object
7.14 Math object
7.15 Exception handling

8.1 Using JavaScript with HTML
8.2 JavaScript in the browser sandbox
8.3 Document Object Model (DOM)
8.4 More DOM modification
8.5 Event-driven programming
8.6 Timers
8.7 Modifying CSS with JavaScript
8.8 Form validation
8.9 JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
8.10 XMLHttpRequest (Ajax)
8.11 Using third-party web APIs (JavaScript)
8.12 Browser differences: JavaScript
8.13 Example: Lights Out game
8.14 Example: Weather Comparison (XMLHttpRequest)

9.1 Regular expressions
9.2 Classes
9.3 Classes (ES6)
9.4 Classes (ES13)
9.5 Inner functions, outer functions, and function scope
9.6 Closures
9.7 Modules
9.8 Strict mode
9.9 Web storage
9.10 Canvas drawing
9.11 Canvas transformations and animation
9.12 WebSockets
9.13 Promises
9.14 async and await
9.15 Fetch API
9.16 Example: Lights Out game with canvas
9.17 Example: Weather Comparison (fetch)

10.1 Mobile websites and browsers
10.2 Mobile development tools
10.3 Viewport
10.4 Media queries
10.5 Responsive images
10.6 Bootstrap
10.7 Example: Responsive band webpage

11.1 Introduction to accessibility
11.2 Accessibility tools
11.3 Page structure
11.4 WAI-ARIA
11.5 Colors
11.6 Images (a11y)
11.7 Links (a11y)
11.8 Text
11.9 Forms (a11y)

12.1 Getting started with Node.js
12.2 Node packages
12.3 Express
12.4 Express request data
12.5 Embedded JavaScript
12.6 Pug

13.1 Relational databases and SQL (Node)
13.2 MySQL
13.3 MySQL2
13.4 MongoDB
13.5 Mongoose
13.6 VS Code
13.7 RESTful web APIs: Part 1 (Node)
13.8 RESTful web APIs: Part 2 (Node)
13.9 Using RESTful web APIs with Fetch
13.10 Third-party web APIs (Node)
13.11 Token-based user authentication (Node)
13.12 Password hashing (Node)

14.1 Getting started with React
14.2 React sandbox
14.3 JSX
14.4 Components
14.5 Event handling
14.6 State
14.7 Conditional rendering
14.8 Lists (React)
14.9 Forms (React)
14.10 Example: Todo List
14.11 Router
14.12 Styling
14.13 React Bootstrap
14.14 Fetching data
14.15 Example: Message Board back-end
14.16 Example: Message Board front-end (Part 1)
14.17 Example: Message Board front-end (Part 2)

15.1 Getting started with PHP
15.2 PHP sandbox
15.3 Arithmetic and comparisons (PHP)
15.4 Conditionals (PHP)
15.5 Loops (PHP)
15.6 Arrays (PHP)
15.7 Functions (PHP)
15.8 Includes (PHP)
15.9 Classes and objects (PHP)
15.10 String, date/time, and math functions (PHP)
15.11 Submitting forms (PHP)
15.12 Form validation and sanitation (PHP)

16.1 Regular expressions (PHP)
16.2 Error handling (PHP)
16.3 File handling (PHP)
16.4 Uploading files (PHP)
16.5 Cookies and sessions (PHP)
16.6 Relational databases and SQL (PHP)
16.7 MySQL (PHP)
16.8 MySQLi (PHP)
16.9 PHP Data Objects (PHP)
16.10 User authentication principles (PHP)
16.11 Implementing user authentication (PHP)
16.12 Using third-party web APIs (PHP)

17.1 Relational databases
17.2 Structured Query Language (SQL)
17.3 SQL sandbox
17.4 Creating, altering, and deleting tables
17.5 Inserting rows
17.6 Selecting rows
17.7 SQL functions
17.8 Joining tables
17.9 Updating and deleting rows

18.1 Getting started with jQuery
18.2 Selectors (jQuery)
18.3 Events (jQuery)
18.4 Styles and animation (jQuery)
18.5 DOM manipulation (jQuery)
18.6 Ajax (jQuery)
18.7 Using third-party web APIs (jQuery)
18.8 Using RESTful web APIs with jQuery
18.9 Plugins (jQuery)
18.10 Example: Weather Comparison (jQuery)
18.11 MySQL module (Node)

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Professor of Computer Science, Harding University

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