CSC 102 How The Internet Works:
Syllabus (Fall 2009)

Date	Notes	Topics	Labs	Assignments	Quizzes
M 26 Oct	Notes1	Intro, mechanics of course Physics of networks: waves, wires
W 28 Oct	Notes2	History of the Internet Network Hierarchy Packet switching LAN; IP ping	ping		Q0
M 2 Nov	Notes3	traceroute TCP/IP DNS	traceroute nslookup VisualRoute	A1 [due Th 5 Nov] A1.BOTW	Q1 [due Th 5 Nov]
W 4 Nov	Notes4	Email: SMTP, MIME
M 9 Nov	Notes5	http; HTML language structure		A2 [due Th 12 Nov] A2.BOTW	Q2 [due Th 12 Nov]
W 11 Nov	Notes6	XHTML <a> tag & URLs HTML colors Dreamweaver	Dreamweaver I
M 16 Nov	Notes7	Char Codes Relative URLs HTML Tables Uploading to beowulf	Upload to Beowulf [Change Beowulf Password] Class Homepages	A3 [due Th 19 Nov] A3.BOTW	Q3 [due Th 19 Nov]
W 18 Nov	Notes8	HTML miscellaneous Exploring tags and attributes Tables: details
M 23 Nov	Notes9	Images: <img> Image file formats		A4 [due Th 3 Dec]	Q4 [due Th 3 Dec]
W 25 Nov	—			Paper/Web Site/Take-Home [due 18Dec]
M 30 Nov	Notes10
W 2 Dec	Notes11
M 7 Dec	Notes12
W 9 Dec	Notes13
M 14 Dec	Notes14
F 18 Dec				Paper/Web Site/Take-Home due