The book is for undergraduate computer science and information technology students. The book can also be used by professionals as reference book. The book does not require any prerequisite knowledge of any computer language. The book covers HTML and wherever required refers to HTML5. HTML5 is going to remain de facto standard for World Wide Web (WWW) at least till 2022. Next set of topics covered are JavaScript, XML, PHP and MYSQL. PHP provides some flavour of server side programming and thus introduces reader to the concept of static and dynamic web applications.HTML Document Tree and also DOM concept has been introduced. The book should generate happy reading experience for the reader.
Dr. Ashwin I. Mehta
Dr. Ashwin I. Mehta is M.Sc. from University of Mumbai and Ph.D. from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in the Nuclear Physics Division (BARC) under the guidance of late Dr. N. Satyamurthy and Dr. K. Usha Dennis. His earliest encounter with computers was writing programs in FORTRAN with BESM-6 mainframe machine and later PDP-11. Subsequently he joined Halliburton and was involved in various technologies of data acquisition, storing and interpretation of oil field data. At Halliburton, he worked in Kuwait, Italy, United States of America and many other countries across the globe. He has several research papers to his credit in national and international journals.
After leaving behind a hectic lifestyle in the oil field, he entered Information Technology (I.T.) academics. Since then, his interests include programming languages, web technologies, design architecture, big data and Python. He has 20+ years of experience that includes corporate training in Halliburton as well as in different academic institutions. He has authored a number of books including “Data Warehousing for beginners”, “Web Technologics” and “Advanced Java” published by Shroff Publishers and Distributors Pvt. Ltd. and “Python Programming” published by Himalaya Publications. Dr. Mehta can be contacted at mehtaashwin2007@yahoo.com for your valuable comments and suggestions.
Dr. Ashwin I. Mehta
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