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Assignment 1

The first assignment is now available here.

Assignment 2: Presentation

The presentation assignment is now available here. You need to choose one of the topics on offer. You will be allocated a slot in Weeks 22-26.

Notes

• 1. Building a Web Service
• 2. JavaScript Arrays and Objects
• 3. AJAX and XML Parsing (PLEASE USE FIREFOX TO READ, NOT IE)
• 4. Further AJAX exercises
• 5. Using Web Services from Server Side Scripts: cURL and SAX
• 6. Further SAX/cURL exercises
• 7-8. Approaches to Web Services
• 10.XSLT :
  • Fundamentals
  • More advanced topics
• 11. Combining XSLT and Other Technologies (includes exercise)
• 12. Introduction to Ruby
• 13. Introduction to Ruby on Rails
• 14. Further Ruby on Rails
• 15. RSS

Wireless/mobile notes

• Wireless markup languages
• WURFL
• Mobile Development Techniques and Techologies
• Introduction to Java ME
• Further Java ME

Further resources

• MSAA notes (expanded version of 'Further Java ME', above)

Lab exercises

For other weeks, the lab exercises can be found within the lecture notes.

• Week 7 Exercise - Critiquing Received Opinion
• Weeks 8-9: REST
• Week 10: XSLT
• Week 12: Introduction to Ruby
• WURFL exercise