Schedule and Topics

I hope to cover all the technologies you need to build a modern web application. We will be using the google app engine as our platform (the Python one, but you can use the Java version if you want). Time permitting, I would also like have you build a simple LAMP (Linux + Apache + mysql + PHP) app and deploy it on Amazon's EC2.

Below are the topics we will cover in, roughly, the order I plan to cover them:

1. Web history: HTTP, firebug
2. Google app engine. Python. HTML
3. App engine datastore: a noSQL datastore.
4. Django templates. CSS
5. JavaScript: the language. Functional programming. Prototype inheritance.
6. JavaScript and the DOM. jQuery.
7. App engine memcache.
8. HTML5: localStorage. jQuery for iPhone.
9. Canvas. SVG
10. App engine XMPP
11. REST
12. Mashups: facebook, delicious, flickr...
13. Another way: LAMP on EC2