Introduction to ASP: Building Interactive, Database-Driven Web Applications
Sharon E. Dennis and Susan K. Roberts
University of Utah
ABSTRACT:
Tired of editing static Web pages? Are you interested in adding more interactivity to your educational Web sites? Using Microsoft's ActiveServer Pages (ASP) technology, you can build interactive, dynamic,database-driven Web applications. This makes updating and maintaining your content much easier and less time consuming than manually editing static pages, so your content stays "fresh" and interesting for your students. Learn how to move from creating Web "pages" to creating Web"applications."
Participants in this hands-on workshop will learn:
•Introductory concepts: how building a Web application is different from building Web pages; software architecture recommendations to build a "three-tier" application in order to maximize productivity.
•What software is necessary to build and serve ASPs.
•Introductory database concepts: how to create, edit, and retrieve information from a simple database.
•How to display information from the database in a Web page.
•How to allow the user to search the database using a variety of criteria and retrieve a result set from the database.
•How to set up a login script so that users must log in to the application.
•How to track and store user responses on the server.
•How, when and why to consider incorporating XML into a Web application.
•How to find and utilize existing ASP scripts and components available for free download on the Web.
Prerequisites: Intermediate knowledge of HTML is REQUIRED; you should have experience hand-coding HTML pages and understand the code, even if you have used a WYSIWYG editor. You should be able to code an HTML form or to quickly pick up on the coding; forms coding will be assumed and not explained in detail. Some experience with a scripting language such as VBScript or JavaScript is recommended, but not necessary.
NOTE: Students may be required to share a computer.
Audience: Intermediate
Length: Full Day
Format: Hands-on
BENEFIT TO PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING SESSION:Participants will learn enough basic concepts to be able to create a simple interactive, database-driven Web application for delivering educational content. They will learn how to structure the Web application using an "ideal" software architecture. They will be exposed to new technologies such as XML. In addition, they will learn how to find resources on the Web to help them create more complicated Web applications.
Sharon E. Dennis Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library University of Utah 10 North 1900 East Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
Phone: 801-585-3928 Fax: 801-581-3632 Email: sdennis@lib.med.utah.edu Website: http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/
CO-INSTRUCTOR: Susan K. Roberts Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library University of Utah 10 North 1900 East Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
Phone: 801-581-3031 Fax: 801-581-3632 Email: sroberts@lib.med.utah.edu Website: http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/