WEB 1.1 - Module 1: Lesson 1

Learning Outcomes 💫

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to...

Explain how websites use the Request-Response Cycle to receive user input and show content to the user
Identify the "request" and the "response" for a given web page

Videos 🎥

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Vid 1 - Breaking down the Request/Response Cycle with Meow.io

Exercises 💪

Answer the questions in the README file in this Repl.it and submit your work.

Written Companion 🗒

<aside> 🤔 How do devices on the internet communicate with each other and how can we build applications that use that same pattern?

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Before we look at online communication, let's consider how traditional mail delivery works. For this example we can assume that a buyer would like to purchase something from a mail order catalogue: