Description
This book intends to expound the complete concept of Web in Theory, Web in Research and Web in Practice with the help of worked out examples for better understanding. Planned as a comprehensive reading for beginners and a reference for advanced learners, the book includes latest developments and approaches related to the World Wide Web.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author
Acronyms
List of figures
List of tables
PART A: INTERNET COMPUTING
1. INTERconnected NETwork: INTERNET
1.1. Internet: The Giant WAN
1.2. Communicating over the Internet
1.3. Accessing the Internet
1.4. Internet Organizations
1.5. Cyber Ethics
2. Internet Applications
2.1. Internet Services
2.2. Electronic Mail (E-mail)
2.3. File Transfer
2.4. Real-time User Communication
2.5. Remote Login
2.6. Usenet
2.7. World Wide Web
PART B: WEB THEORY
3. The World Wide Web
3.1. The Web
3.2. The Working of Web
3.3. Web Terminology
3.3.1. Web page
3.4. Web Architecture
3.5. World Wide Web Challenges
4. HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
4.1. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
4.2. HTTP Version
4.3. HTTP Connections
4.4. HTTP Communication
4.5. Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
4.6. HTTP State Retention: Cookies
4.7. HTTP Cache
5. Evolution of Web
5.1. The Generations of Web
5.2. Web 1.0
5.3. Web 2.0
5.4. Web 3.0
5.5. Big Data: A Special Discussion
6. Web IR: Information Retrieval on the Web
6.1. Web Information Retrieval (Web IR)
6.2. Web IR Tools
6.3. Web IR Architecture (Search Engine Architecture)
6.4. Web IR Performance Metrics
6.5. Web IR Models
6.6. Google’s PageRank TM
PART C: WEB DEVELOPMENT
7. Web Development Basics
7.1. Elements of Web Development
7.2. Client Side and Server-side scripting
7.3. Model-View-Controller (MVC) Architecture
8. Client-side Technologies
8.1. HTML
8.2. CSS
8.3. JavaScript
8.4. Bootstrap Framework
8.5. AngularJS Framework
9. Server-side Technologies
9.1. Server-side Scripting
9.2. PHP
9.3. Node.js: Server-side JavaScript
10. Web Application Frameworks
10.1. DJango
10.2. Ruby on Rails (RoR)
11. Web Databases
11.1. Web Database
11.2. SQL: Relational Databases
11.3. NoSQL Databases: Non-Relational & Distributed Data
11.4. Understanding Popular Databases
PART D: WEB RESEARCH
12. Research Trends in Web
12.1. Contextual Information Retrieval
12.2. Web Mining
APPENDIX
Appendix A: HTML Examples
Appendix B: A Recipe Website project using Django and Neo4j: Kitchen Ninja
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