Preface
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
8 App Engine Datastore
-The Model-View-Controller Pattern
-Looking Through the Datastore
-Terminology: Different Types of Keys
-References Between Data Models
-Summary
-Exercises
9 JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX
-jQuery
-Create a View of the Chat Messages in HTML
-Asynchronously Updating a <div> Using AJAX
-Summary
-Exercises
10 Running Your Application on the Google Infrastructure
-Application Engine Accounts
-Creating an Application on App Engine
-Logs, Statistics, and Other Features
-Collaboration on Applications
-Summary
-Exercises
11 Memory Cache
-The Rules of Memory Cache
-Using the Memory Cache
-Using the Application Console to Examine Memory Cache
-Using a Memory Cache in Your Application
-Building a Session Store Using Memory Cache
-Sessions and Memory Cache
-Summary
-Exercises
A: Installing and Running Google App Engine on Windows XP
B: Installing and Running Google App Engine on Windows Vista
C: Installing and Running Google App Engine on a Macintosh System
D: Installing and Running Google App Engine on a Linux System
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