May 2009
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
5h 59m
English
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Chapter 1. Programming on the Web
You probably have been using the Web now for many years to read news, shop, gather information, and communicate with your friends. You start your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, or another) and navigate around the Web. You may even have a MySpace page or a blog somewhere and have written a bit of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) to customize the look of your page. Some web pages are just flat content, where you see the exact same thing every time you visit that page, and other pages have highly dynamic content and display something very different based on your actions or what you type.
In this book, you will learn how to write applications that generate those dynamic web pages and how to run your applications on the Google App Engine infrastructure.
A perfect example of an interactive and dynamic page is Google Search (Figure 1-1).
Figure 1-1. Google Search
When you come to Google Search, you can type anything into the search box and click the Google Search button. Figure 1-2 shows search results for your request.
Figure 1-2. Google Search results
Google Search is a “web application”—it is software that runs on the Web. The Google Search application takes as its input many requests per second from web browsers around the world. ...
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