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Recommended Citation: Raoufi, M, K Spoa, and Z Wiggins. Client/Server Web Application Development. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2001, v 18 (Cincinnati): §30c.

Client/Server Web Application Development

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Mehdi Raoufi    [a1] [a2]
Department of Information Systems and Computer Programming
Purdue University Calumet    [u1] [u2]
Hammond, Indiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

Kimberly Spoa    [a1] [a2]
Department of Information Systems and Computer Programming
Purdue University Calumet    [u1] [u2]
Hammond, Indiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

Zachary Wiggins    [a1] [a2]
Department of Information Systems and Computer Programming
Purdue University Calumet    [u1] [u2]
Hammond, Indiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

Client Side Web Application Development refers to coding in HTML and/or scripting languages. When a user opens a web page, which is stored in a server, the file is transferred from the server computer to the client computer and viewed in the client computer. If it consists of scripts, execution of these programs is done in the client computer. In Server Side Web Application Development, when a program stored in a server is accessed (usually written in some scripting language and/or Java along with HTML code), the program is executed in the server computer; HTML code is generated, which is then transferred to the client computer to be viewed. This tutorial starts with a review of HTML and how scripting languages as JavaScript/ VBScript can be used together with HTML code to add interactivity to web pages as Client Side Programming. Server Side Programming is then presented using Microsoft's dynamic document technology, ASP (Active Server Pages). The paper ends with an e-commerce application; Internet shopping center. The objective of the paper is to present client/server web application development not any scripting language, the reader is assumed to have some familiarity with HTML and a modern programming language.

Keywords: dynamic document technology, active server pages, ASP, client-side programming, server-side programming, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML

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