WDD-LO1-WEB APPLICATIONS

WA are dynamic web sites combined with server side programming which provide functionalities such as interacting with users, connecting to back-end databases, and generating results to browsers.

Examples:

• Online banking
• Social networking
• Online reservations
• eCommerce
• Interactive Games
• Online Training
• Blogs
• Online Forums
• Content Management Systems
• etc.

Two main categories of coding, scripting and programming for creating WA:

1. Client Side Scripting; type of code that is executed or interpreted by browsers. (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, Ajax, jQuery)
2. Server Side Scripting; type of code that is executed or interpreted by the web server. (PHP: Hypertext PreProcessor,  ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL)