Last Update:

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]
Q1
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]
Q2
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]
q3
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  

 

Class
Topics
1
Physics of Networks
2
History of Internet; LAN; IP
3
TCP/IP
4
Email; spam
5
HTTP; URLs; HTML structure
6
HTML colors
7
HTML tables; relative URLs
8
Image file formats
9
Images
10
JavaScript
11
JavaScript events
12
Web searching
13
 
14
Cookies, Twitter, VoIP, Skype

Return to CSC102 Class Homepage: