Week 1
Web Services Are Not Distributed Objects 
by Werner Vogels
Chapter 5, Representational State Transfer (REST)
Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
by Roy Thomas Fielding
Week 2
Web Services Are Not Distributed Objects
by Werner Vogels
Chapter 5, Representational State Transfer (REST)
Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
by Roy Thomas Fielding
Week 3
Section 1 Introduction & Section 2 Perspectives on Web Development
Tools and Approaches for Developing Data-Intensive Web Applications: A Survey
by Piero Fraternali
- PHP Manual, Section II. Language Reference
Bakken, S. & Schmid, E., Eds. - Chapters:
- 5. Basic syntax
- 6. Types
- 7. Variables
- 8. Constants
- 9. Expressions
- 10. Operators
- 11. Control Structures
Week 4
- PHP From the Ground Up
by Tim Ziegler - A detailed tutorial written by Ziegler, a web developer and regular contributor to Webmonkey.
- PHP Manual, Section II. Language Reference
Bakken, S. & Schmid, E., Eds. - Chapter 12. Functions
Week 5
Bakken, S. & Schmid, E., Eds.
Week 6
- PHP Function Reference
Bakken, S. & Schmid, E., Eds. - Chapter CIV. String functions
- Chapter CIX. URL Functions
Introduction to Databases for the Web
by Selena Sol