Lecture overview -- Keyboard shortcut: 'u'  Previous page: Premises -- Keyboard shortcut: 'p'  Next page: An example of programmatic authoring -- Keyboard shortcut: 'n'  Lecture notes - all slides and notes together  slide -- Keyboard shortcut: 't'  Help page about these notes  Alphabetic index  Course home  Page 5 : 19
Programmatic WWW authoring
Programmatic authoring

  • Document source language

    • A programming language

  • Program execution

    • Generates the underlying HTML pages

  • Abstraction

    • Document details can be encapsulated in functions

  • Automation

    • Routine tasks can be programmed in procedures

Authoring of complex web materials involves the same problems and solutions as development of non-trivial software