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CSC 102 How the Internet Works:
Syllabus (Spring 2007)

Week
 Topics
1
 History; packets; TCP/IP
2
 DNS; email; SMTP; MIME attachments
3
 spam; email viruses; MessageScreen; http; URLs; web search
4
 HTML; Dreamweaver
5
 HTML; images; graphic file formats
6
 JavaScript; events
7
 Privacy, security, cookies, phishing

 

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Date

 Notes Topics Labs Assignments Quizzes
29Jan: M Notes1
Course goals
Course outline

Computer basics
Bits & Bytes
Physics of networks
Tranmission media
Bandwidth

Quizzes: HowTo



A1: Bits, Bytes, Packets
A1 BOTW

 Quiz0
Q0 Answers

Quiz1
Q1 Answers
31Jan: W Notes2 History of the Internet

Network Hierarchy
Packet switching
IP
TCP/IP		 ping

On your own time:    traceroute		    
5Feb: M
Judy Franklin		 Notes3 Domain names
DNS
email
RFC822; SMTP (1982)
sendmail
GroupWise
Email Headers

nslookup    
7Feb: W No class   [Q1/A1 due Saturday morning]
  
12Feb: M Notes4 ASCII (1967), encoding
MIME (1996)
Email viruses
Virus detection
Spam; phishing
Spam filters
 MessageScreen,  WebShield,  MailWatch
ITS:processing
ITS:current
ITS:projected 		Full Headers in Groupwise
MessageScreen		 A2: Email; Web Searches
A2 BOTW		 Quiz2
Q2 Answers
14Feb: W Notes5

Web clients: browsers
Web servers
Apache server
HTTP: protocol details
URL: syntactic structure

Web searching
Yahoo Glossary
Search Engines

Web Searches    
19Nov: M Notes6 http [revisited]
HTML (begin)
HTML Tutorial 1
HTML Tutorial 2
HTML Tutorial 3
W3C HTML Tutorial
HTML Colors Tutorial
HTML Colors
URLs & <a>		 Dreamweaver: Start
    
21Feb: W No class Rally Day A3
A3 BOTW
[Q2/A2 due Thurs morning] 		Quiz3
Q3 Answers
26Feb: M Notes7 URLs: rel & abs
named anchor tags
special chars
HTML Tables
<body> attributes
Client/Server: beowulf
Uploading to server: ssh
 Connecting to beowulf
Uploading to beowulf		 Homepages Links  
28Feb: W Notes8 HTML <img> tag
Image Formats:
  GIF; JPEG; PNG; TIFF; BMP
   A4: Schedule; Images
A4 BOTW
[Q3/A3 due Thurs morning] 		Quiz4
Q4 Answers
5Mar: M Notes9 GET & images
Image size
Copying images
Editing images: Paint, Photoshop 		Images
Photoshop 		   
7Mar: W Notes10 Embed'ing sound
Copyright Law

JavaScript
Where in document
Alerts, etc.
DOM
   A5: JavaScript
A5 BOTW

[Q4/A4 due Thurs morning] 		Quiz5
Q5 Answers
12Mar: M Notes11 JS syntax
Events
Switching Images
Image rollovers
Pop-up windows
Image maps
JavaScript+Image maps
 Butterflies map    
14Mar: W Notes12 Cookies
Future of the Internet?

JavaScript help 		Course Advice/Evaluation [Q5/A5 due Thurs morning]