Course Materials

There are NO REQUIRED books, but a complete set of class notes will be made available

Recommended Texts

• USC has a deal with publisher O'Reilly that permits us to access many of their books online. Go to http://safari.oreilly.com
• For HTML
  HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, O'Reilly and Associates;
• For XML
  XML Language Mechanics & Applications, Dwight Peltzer, Addison Wesley;
• For Web Servers
  Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3^rd Edition by Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie, O'Reilly & Associates;
• For TCP/IP
  TCP/IP Protocol Suite, 3^rd Edition by Behrouz A. Forouzan, McGraw- Hill;
• For Perl
  Programming Perl, 3^rd Edition by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant, O'Reilly & Associates;
• For JavaScript
  JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5^th Edition by David Flanagan, O'Reilly and Associates; and ppk on JavaScript, 1^st Edition by Peter-Paul Koch, New Riders Press;
• For CGI Programming
  Special Edition Using CGI, 2^nd Edition by Jeffry Dwight, Michael Erwin, Robert Niles, Que Publisher;
• For Tomcat and MySQL
  JSP, Servlets and MySQL, by David Harms, M&T Books (John Wiley & Sons);
• For Java Servlets and JSP
  Core WEB Programming, 2^nd Edition by Marty Hall and Larry Brown, Prentice Hall (Java Series by Sun Microsystems Press);
• For Web Services
  Developing Java Web Services, by Ramesh Nagappan, Robert Skoczylas and Rima Patel Sriganesh, John Wiley & Sons;
and J2EE Web Services, by Richard Monson-Haefel, Addison-Wesley;
• For MySQL
  Core MySQL, 1^st Edition by Leo Atkinson, Prentice Hall;
• For Introduction to Java
  Core Java 2, Volume I: Fundamentals, 6^th Edition by Cay S. Horstmann and Gary Cornell, Prentice Hall (Java Series by Sun Microsystems Press);
• For XML Security
  XML Security, by Blake Dournaee, Blake Dournee, Osborne MCGraw-Hill;
• For Introduction to UNIX
  Unix: The Complete Reference, by Kenneth Rosen, Douglas Host, James Farber, Richard Rosinski, Osborne McGraw-Hill;
• For Axis and XML Tools
  J2EE Open Source Toolkit, by John T. Bell, Stanford Ng and James T. Lambros, John Wiley and Sons; and Professional XML Development with Apache Tools, by Theodore W. Leung. Wiley;
• For RSS
  Content Syndication with RSS, by Ben Hammersley, O'Reilly and Associates;
• For AJAX
  JavaScript And AJAX - Visual Quickstart Guide, 6^th Edition by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith, Peachpit Press.