Server Side technologies

Question 1

What are the generations of web development?

Answer 1

• Static Generation ( text, images)
• First Dynamic Generation ( client-side scripts that were browser specific)
• Second dynamic generation ( 1st gen. of server-side scripting, CGI executed on the web server, scalability issues, required a programming language that had good communication faculties)
• Third dynamic generation ( Active server pages, easy to use IDE)

Question 2

What are the two most common uses for server-side technologies?

Answer 2

• Getting data as a response to a query and inserting it to the webpage
• Taking POST form input and storing it, or taking data from storage and displaying it in a webpage

Question 3

Why is allowing permanent data storage essential for allowing the web to perform as a transactional medium?

Answer 3

It overcomes one of the biggest problems of using the internet for business, statelessness

Question 4

What is PHP?

Answer 4

A server side, cross platform, HTML embedded scripting language

Question 5

What is the second most popular technology for programming web-databases?

Answer 5

ASP ( Active Server Pages)

Question 6

What must you do to view PHP or ASP.NET page?

Answer 6

Use the HTTP protocol to access it.

Question 7

Why is embedding script commands in HTML not very efficient?

Answer 7

• Made the code difficult to read

- Makes separation of concerns difficult

Question 8

What is a MVC approach?

Answer 8

Model-View-Controller is an organisational approach that separates concerns in an application into 3 areas( data access logic, display logic and application logic)