Using Google App Engine / Charles Severance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Severance, Charles R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Google Apps.

Google.

Application software.

Cascading style sheets.

HTML (Document markup language).

Python (Computer program language).

Web site development--Computer programs.

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Google App Engine

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Build exciting, scalable web applications quickly and confidently using Google App Engine and this book, even if you have little or no experience in programming or web development. App Engine is perhaps the most appealing web technology to appear in the last year, providing an easy-to-use application framework with basic web tools. While Google's own tutorial assumes significant experience, Using Google App Engine will help anyone get started with this platform. By the end of this book, you'll know how to build complete, interactive applications and deploy them to th

Contents:

Table of 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 ApplicationSummary; 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; Styling Tags with CSS; Exerting More Control over Markup; Validating CSS; Tools to Help You Work with CSS; Building the Navigation Menu; The CSS Box Model; Adding Navigation Hints for Users; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 3. Python; What Is Programming?; About Python; Installing Python

The Essence of ProgrammingInput, Processing, and Output; Conditional Steps: A Number-Guessing Web Application; Variables and Expressions; Naming Variables; Constants; Handling Text Data Using Strings; Using the String Library; Types and Conversion; Variables with Many Values at the Same Time: Lists; Repeated Code: Loops; Python's Backpack: Dictionaries; Looping Through a Dictionary; Stored and Reused Code: Python Functions; Turning Traceback to Our Advantage Using Try and Except; Object-Oriented Python; Comments in Python; The Tao of Programming; Summary; Exercises

Chapter 4. Sending Data to Your ApplicationMaking 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 CodeWhat 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; Referencing Static Files; Generalizing Template Lookup with Multiple Templates; Extending Base Templates; Conditional Processing Templates; Replacing More Than One Block in the Base Template

Extending Our Application

Notes:

"O'Reilly/Google Press"--Cover.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781306814225

1306814227

9780596555801

0596555806

9780596551322

0596551320

OCLC:

780424397