CS130. Introduction to the World-Wide Web

Prerequisites: none

Syllabus:

• Introduction to the Internet: Background and history of networking and the Internet; overview of network architectures
• Communication and networking: Overview of network standards and protocols; circuit switching vs. packet switching
• Introduction to the World-Wide Web: Web technologies; the HTML protocol; the format of a web page; support tools for web site creation
• Multimedia data technologies: Sound and audio, image and graphics, animation and video; input and output devices; tools to support multimedia development
• Interactivity on the web: Scripting languages; the role of applets
• Human-computer interaction: HCI aspects of web-page design; graphical user-interface design
• Network management: Overview of the issues of network management; use of passwords and access control mechanisms; domain names and name services; issues for Internet service providers; security issues and firewalls;
• Compression and decompression: Analog and digital representations; overview of encoding and decoding algorithms; lossless and lossy compression
• Network security: Fundamentals of cryptography; secret-key algorithms; public-key algorithms; authentication protocols; digital signatures; examples
• Software tools and environments: Web-page development tools
• Intellectual property: Foundations of intellectual property;copyrights, patents, and trade secrets; issues regarding the use of intellectual property on the web
• Privacy and civil liberties: Ethical and legal basis for privacy protection; freedom of expression in cyberspace; international and intercultural implications

Units covered:

NC1	Introduction to net-centric computing	2	core hours
NC2	Communication and networking	2	core hours (of 7)
NC3	Network security	3	core hours
NC4	The web as an example of client-server computing	3	core hours
NC5	Building web applications	3	hours
NC6	Network management	2	hours
NC7	Compression and decompression	3	hours
NC8	Multimedia data technologies	3	hours
HC5	Graphical user-interface design	2	hours
HC7	HCI aspects of multimedia systems	2	hours
SE3	Software tools and environments	2	core hours (of 3)
SP6	Intellectual property	2	core hours (of 3)
SP7	Privacy and civil liberties	2	core hours
	Elective topics	9	hours

Notes:
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