CSCI A348
Mastering the World-Wide Web

Spring `96 Course Resources

A note on deficiencies: Students beginning A348 are expected to have a basic working familiarity with Unix, the Internet, the World-Wide Web and HTML. The resources below include ones useful for students needing to eliminate any deficiencies in these areas. Working through them should help bring you up to speed and this should be done as early in the course as possible. Most bookstores have many books on these topics as well. The course teaching staff and your fellow students are available for further assistance.

General

• UCS Help Online
• Netscape's Internet Search and Internet Directory
• Search Engines and Configurable Unified Search Index
• Virtual Tourist and Citylink
• Britannica Online

Unix

• UCS Unix and Unix application publications
• UCS Account Services
• The Unix Reference Desk

Internet/World-Wide Web

• UCS Knowledge Base
• Webmaster Reference Library
• WWW Frequently Asked Questions and WWW Security FAQ
• Internet Engineering Task Force
• WWW Consortium (Web specifications, etc)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation and Center for Democracy & Technology
• iu.www

History

• From Webspace to Cyberspace
• Vannevar Bush's As We May Think
• The Short History of the Internet
• The Curse of Xanadu
• Some other writings on the Internet

HTML

• Netscape's Creating Net Sites - Authoring Documents
• Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• HTML Quick Reference Guide
• WWW Test Pattern and WWW Viewer Test Page
• Web Style Manual from Yale CAIM

WWW Servers

• Book examples from Build a Web Site
• starthttpd and rolllogs administration scripts
• getstats and wwwstat log analyzers
• NCSA HTTPd Home Page
• Web Server Comparison Chart
• CGI Programmer's Reference
• cgi.pl, a Perl 4 CGI subroutine library
• Other CGI libraries for Perl 4 and Perl 5

Perl

• www.perl.com
• The University of Florida Perl Archive
• Middle of Nowhere Perl/CGI Page
• Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
• PostScript sources of reference guides for Perl 4 and Perl 5 (local copy)
• Perl 5 operator precedence table (local)
• ASCII and ISO 8859-1 table (local)
• Book examples from Learning Perl and Programming Perl (local copy)
• Tom Christiansen's Perl slides (local copy)
• Perl Tutorial from NCSA
• A Beginner's Guide to Perl online tutorial
• iu.perl

Java

• www.javasoft.com
• White Paper and Tutorial (local copies)
• API User's Guide and Book (local copies)
• Harold's Java FAQ and Tutorial (local copies)
• Gamelan and Java Applet Rating Service
• Cafe Au Lait and TeamJava
• Java operator precedence table (local)
• JDK and Nutshell demos (local copies)
• Java sources
• How Java Differs from C
• JavaWorld magazine
• comp.lang.java and iu.java

VRML

• The VRML Repository
• From Webspace to Cyberspace
• Wanna-Be Virtual World Factory
• Browser screenshots