CSC 102 How The Internet Works (Sec.02):
Syllabus (Spring 2010)

Date	Notes	Topics	Labs	Assignments	Quizzes
Tu 26Jan	Notes1	Intro, mechanics of course Physics of networks: waves, wires
Th 28Jan	Notes2	History of the Internet Network Hierarchy Packet switching LAN; IP ping	ping		Q0
Tu 2 Feb	Notes3	TCP/IP DNS ASCII; hex digits	traceroute nslookup VisualRoute
Th 4 Feb	Notes4	WWW Intro HTTP URLs Uploading	Saving a Web Page Upload to Beowulf	A1 [due Th 4 Feb] Q1&A1 Discussion	Q1 [due Th 4 Feb]
Tu 9 Feb		JOR out of town: Both sections meet in Seelye 201
Th 11 Feb	Notes6	HTML colors Rel. vs. Abs. URLs Char. Codes Tables	Dreamweaver: TicTacToe	A2 [due Th 11 Feb] Q2&A2 Discussion	Q2 [due Th 11 Feb]
Tu 16 Feb	Notes7	HTML <img> tag Image File Formats:   GIF; JPEG; PNG; TIFF; BMP Copying images	Images	Homepages
Th 18 Feb	Notes8	Multimedia Forms Form Remailer A3 review	FormRemailer	A3 [due Th 18 Feb] Q3&A3 Discussion	Q3 [due Th 18 Feb]
Tu 23 Feb	Notes9	Scripting Languages JavaScript: What, How, Why? DOM JavaScript formally	HelloPrompt
Th 25 Feb	Notes10	JavaScript types Booleans Conditional Conversion string → number Email: SMTP Attachments		A4 [due Th 25 Feb] Q4&A4 Discussion	Q4 [due Th 25 Feb]
Tu 2 Mar	Notes11	Spam Viruses	MessageScreen	Paper or Take-Home [due 11Mar]
Th 4 Mar	Notes12	Web Searching	SearchTasks
Tu 9 Mar	Notes13	Cookies Identity Theft Review of Paper & Take-Home Options	Course Advice/Evaluation
Th 11 Mar		Whitney Brooks: Censorship Grace Burberry-Martin: Encryption Rebecca Butler: Online Dating Maggie Chestnut: Freak Culture Jessica Famulara: Online game distribution Katherine Gormley: Flash Le Nguyen: Gaming & Cloud Comput. Taylor Studley: MultiUser Games Elizabeth Sullivan: Privacy Law Elizabeth Tanner: Internet 3rd World
		Spring Break
Tu 23 Mar		CSC 105 starts