CGI Programming for the Web

    Learn how to take your web site to the next level with CGI! Without CGI, your web site can only display static documents and links to other pages. With CGI, your web site becomes fun, interactive, and informative. If you're serious about doing business on the Internet, you need to know CGI. In this hands-on series of online classes, you'll learn how to use CGI and the Perl programming language to work with cookies and forms, and you'll get to build your own searchable database, bulletin board, and e-mail autoresponder. HTML experience or completion of the Creating Web Pages class is required.

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    Requirements:

    For this class, you will need Internet access, e-mail, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator web browser. You will also be asked to set up a free web hosting account with Hypermart or any other hosting service with CGI support so that you can upload and test your programs on the web.

Syllabus

Week One
Lesson 1 What is CGI?
Lesson 2 Perl basics
Week Two
Lesson 3 Variables
Lesson 4 Pattern matching and decision-making
Week Three
Lesson 5 Forms
Lesson 6 Arrays and loops
Week Four
Lesson 7 Building an e-mail autoresponder
Lesson 8 Building an e-mail autoresponder
Week Five
Lesson 9 Building a searchable database
Lesson 10 Building a searchable database
Week Six
Lesson 11 Building a bulletin board
Lesson 12 Working with cookies

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