resources

general

• MDN web docs
• learn enough to be dangerous : command line, text editor, git, html, css, javascript
• hacker tools

networks & protocols

• The TCP/IP Guide
• wireshark
• wikipedia: internet protocol suite
• wikipedia: domain name system

web development

• MDN: web tech for developers (core tech : html, css, http, js, ...)
• sql - backend relational database
  • SQLite
  • wikibooks: sql exercises
• frameworks & libraries (in no particular order)
  • jquery (a common frontend javascript library)
  • underscore.js (javascript functional tools)
  • React : learn react | HackerNews discussion (a popular-in-2019 javascript/html frontend user interface framework, particularly for single page apps)
  • backbone.js (another front end library for single page apps; competes with React)
  • PHP (a popular backend scripting language)
    • our php notes
  • Flask (python back end)
  • Ruby on Rails (ruby backend)
  • Bootstrap (mobile-friendly html/cs/js prototype templates)
  • ... and many, many more more
• realworld example apps - a "medium" example app with many front & back end implementations
• ToDoMVC - single page app with many implementations

javascript : language & frameworks

• MDN: javascript
• MDN: the DOM
• eloquent javascript
• state of js - what's popular
  • node
  • vanilla js - somewhat tongue-in-cheek
  • jquery

design

• Don't Make Me Think
• Jessica on UX

tools

• jsfiddle | others
• MDN: firefox developer tools

ads & search

• wikipedia: Google Ads (put your ads in google search)
• wikipedia: Google AdSense (put their ads on your site)
• wikipedia: SEO

mobile

• cross platform tools compared

deploy

• domain registration : namecheap, ...
• hosting : nearlyfreespeech, linode, AWS, ...
• security : wikipedia: virtual private network

politics & standards

• wikipedia: internet governance
• W3C
• EFF
• open source inititive - licenses

Jim's previous courses

• Web Programming Fall 2014
• Internet Tech Spring 2012
• MSIE Web Development Fall 2006

misc

• Copyright and Plagiarism
• Marlboro academics | governance | knowledge base | directory
• wikipedia computer science - areas of study with descriptions
• These wiki pages allow math formulas like \( \left( \sum\limits_{i=1}^\infty \frac{1}{i} \right) \) in LaTeX via MathJax.