Preface

Science and technology and the various forms of art, all unite humanity in a single and interconnected system.

—Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvede

Welcome to Internet and web programming with Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, Fifth Edition! This book presents leading-edge computing technologies for students, instructors and software developers.

The world of computing—and Internet and web programming in particular—has changed dramatically since the last edition. This new edition focuses on HTML5 and the related technologies in its ecosystem, diving into the exciting new features of HTML5, CSS3, the latest edition of JavaScript (ECMAScript 5) and HTML5 canvas. We focus on popular key technologies that will help you build Internet and web-based applications that interact with other applications and with databases. These form the basis of the kinds of enterprise-level, networked applications that are popular in industry today.