CSCI 178 AJAX Introduction

Tutorials

• JavaScript and JSON
• jQuery Data with AJAX

Representing information

• Yahoo Weather API
• XML — Extensible Markup Language
  • XML standards
  • W3Schools XML tutorial
  • MathML
  • SVG
• JSON — JavaScript Object Notation
  • Introducing JSON
  • W3Schools JSON
  • JSONlint

What is AJAX?

• Wikipedia
• AJAX Tutorial
• MDN tutorial
• 6.170 lecture notes

Trying it out

Download a very small modification of the jQuery lab.