Charles Severance

Using Google App Engine

Building Web Applications

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows you how to build exciting web applications quickly and confidently, using Google App Engine -- even if you have little or no experience in programming or web development. One of the most exciting web technologies to appear in the last year, Google App Engine provides beginners like you with the tools you need to build fully working applications and deploy them "in the cloud" on Google servers.

Using Google App Engine helps beginners learn the technical aspects required to create sophisticated, interactive web applications, and provides experienced developers with a thorough introduction to this platform. The book covers all of the technologies necessary to use Google App Engine, including Python, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and HTTP.

Building web applications used to be for experts. With Google App Engine and this book, anyone can create a dynamic web presence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Google Press / O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 259
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 179mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780596800697
• ISBN-10: 059680069X
• Artikelnr.: 25906998

Autorenporträt

Charles Severance is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan; he has also taught Computer Science at Michigan State University. Charles also works with the IMS Global Learning Consortium as the IMS Developer Network Coordinator. Previously he was the Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation and the Chief Architect of the Sakai Project (www.sakaiproject.org). Charles is the author of High Performance Computing, Second Edition, published by O'Reilly and Associates. His home page is http: //www.dr-chuck.com.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:

Preface

Who Should Read This Book?

What s in This Book?

Teaching with This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Using Code Examples

Safari® Books Online

Comments and Questions

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Programming on the Web

The Request/Response Cycle

What Is Google App Engine?

What Is a Cloud ?

Why Did Google Build App Engine and Give It Away for

Free?

What Is the Google Infrastructure Cloud?

Enter the Application Engine

Your Application Must Be a Good Citizen in the Google

Cloud

How the Cloud Runs Your Application

Why You Really Want to Run in the Cloud

The Simplest App Engine Application

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 2 HTML and CSS

A Brief History of HTML and CSS

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

A Well-Formed HTML Document

Validating Your HTML

HyperText Links (Anchor Tags)

Multiple Files

Lists in HTML

Specifying Styles Using CSS

Exerting More Control over Markup

Building the Navigation Menu

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 3 Python

What Is Programming?

About Python

The Essence of Programming

Conditional Steps: A Number-Guessing Web Application

Object-Oriented Python

The Tao of Programming

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 4 Sending Data to Your Application

Making an HTTP Request

Hacking the HTTP Protocol

The HTTP Protocol Standards

Watching HTTP in Action

HTML: Building a Form

Sending Form Data to the Server Using POST

Handling Form Data in the App Engine Server

Sending Form Data to the Server Using GET

App Engine Log

Looking at All the Data Available on an HTTP Request

Advanced: Multipart POST Data with File Upload

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 5 The App Engine webapp Framework

A Trivial App Engine Application

An Equivalent Trivial webapp Application

The Handler Callback Pattern

Looking at the Handler Code

What Is self and Why Is It There?

Number Guessing Using the webapp Framework

Web Server Logs

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 6 Templates

Template Syntax

Using the Templates from Python

The Number-Guessing Game Using Templates

Abstraction and Separation of Concerns: Model View

Controller

Building a Multiscreen Application

Static Files in App Engine

Generalizing Template Lookup with Multiple Templates

Extending Base Templates

Conditional Processing Templates

Extending Our Application

Syntax Errors

More on Templates

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 7 Cookies and Sessions

HTTP Cookies

Logging In and Logging Out Using Sessions

Installing the Simple Session Utility Using the Session to Mark Login and Logout

Changing the User Interface for a Logged-In User

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 8 App Engine Datastore

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Rezensionen

"Using Google App Engine von Charles Severance ist das Buch, auf das alle, die mit Googles Cloud experimentieren wollen, gewartet haben. Es ist ein Buch für Anfänger und setzt daher keinerlei Kenntnisse voraus. So werden in eigenen Kapiteln erklärt, wie das Netz resp. das HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) funktioniert, was HTML und CSS sind, was ein Cloud im Allgemeinen und Googles Cloud im Besonderen ist und auch eine Kurzeinführung in Python ist enthalten. Das macht durchaus Sinn und man merkt dem Buch an, das es aus einer Vorlesungsreihe für "students with very limited technical background" entstanden ist. Das ist kein Nachteil, das Buch ist didaktisch gut aufgebaut und der Autor versteht, witzig und unterhaltsam zu schreiben.[...]Alles in allem ist Using Google App Engine ein unverzichtbares Buch für alle, die wissen wollen, wie Googles Cloud funktioniert und das Grundlagenwerk für die, die Googles App Engine tatsächlich nutzen wollen. Daher eine unbedingte Kaufempfehlung." -- Schockwellenreiter.de, Juli 2009