JQuery, JSON & AJAX

The traditional web model requires each user interaction to trigger an HTTP client-server interaction that creates a new browser page. AJAX and other techniques allow the Web developer to interact with the server without the expense of recreating a new DOM.

Mobile App Development Platforms

Tutorial Resources

Browser Inspectors

Use the browser inspector tools to peek at the HTML structure of a page as well as its CSS style.

CSS Practical

The CSS that we wrote in the lecture, applied to the updated Tortoise and Hare HTML story created in week 1. (Note that there's 3 different stylesheets attached. Use View > Page Styles to see them all in Firefox.) Also links to Zen Garden so you can do the group task.

ReST Practical

In the tutorial we explored the PayPal API as an example of an API that implements HATEOAS.