Tutorial 10: Harnessing the Power of the Web

Half-day tutorial on Monday, April 10, 1995
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Room: 31/0012

Description of Tutorial:

This tutorial will include:

Advanced HTML and Forms:

We will offer an advanced survey of HTML, especially the forms feature, which interacts with CGI (the Common Gateway Interface).

Introduction to the HyperText Transfer Protocol:

We'll take a brief overview of HTTP, to help you understand how HTML forms communicate with CGI.

Interfacing Computer-Based Resources to the WWW:

The CGI is the connection between HTML forms and the software you want to use behind them, e.g. database queries. We'll study how to do input and output to/from CGI programs, with some examples.

Harnessing the Web's Power: Web Searchable Databases.

We'll see how to make use of HTML forms, processed by CGI scripts and programs, to connect these forms to databases ranging from very simple tabular searches through to more complex relational databases.

Who should attend:

This half day tutorial is not aimed at the newcomer to the WWW, so much as towards those Web application developers contemplating setting up HTML forms, databases, or information systems on the WWW. The participant should have some knowledge of HTML, and ideally should also have some knowledge of programming.