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

Class
Topics
1
Physics of Networks
2
History of Internet; LAN; IP
3
TCP/IP; DNS
4
WWW Intro; HTTP; URLs
5
HTML: language structure
6
HTML: tables, relative URLs, etc.
7
Images; file formats
8
Multimedia; Forms
9
JavaScript
10
JavaScript
11
Email, SMTP, spam
12
Web searching; Page rank
13
Cookies; Identity Theft
14
Final presentations

 

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]
Q1
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]
Q1
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]
Q1
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]
Q4
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
   

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