B211 Internet Computing

Lectures

Links to lectures notes will be put on this page after each lecture. You can get them in either the PDF format, or as Microsoft PowerPoint files.

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If you are interested, you may scan through last year's lecture notes for general previews to some of the lectures (again, you can get the password here). Those notes will be updated for this semester, and a lot of the lectures have been added, deleted, or completely revamped. Do not depend on last year's notes for material for this semester.

Unit Introduction

Topic Outline
[PDF] [PPT] Week 1 Lecture 1 : What to expect from this unit.

Topic 1: The Global Network

Topic Outline
[PDF] [PPT] Week 1 Lecture 2 & 3: What is this thing called the Internet?
[PDF - 1 per page] [PDF - 4 per page] [PPT] Week 2 Lecture 1: Long-Haul Backbone Networks
[PDF] [PPT] Week 2 Lecture 1 supplement: Images of Satellites
[PDF] [PPT] Week 2 Lecture 2: Access Networks
[PDF] [PPT] Week 2 Lecture 3: How the Internet is controlled and payed for

Topic 2: The World Wide Web

Topic Outline
[PDF] [PPT] Week 3 Lecture 1: What in the world is the World Wide Web?
[PDF] [PPT] Week 3 Lecture 2: Internals of the Web Server
[PDF] [PPT] Week 3 Lecture 3: Internals of the Web Client
[PDF] [PPT] Week 4 Lecture 1: Search Engines & Web Proxy Servers
[PDF] [PPT] Week 4 Lecture 2 & 3: Client-side scripting with JavaScript
[PDF] [PPT] Week 5 Lecture 1: Server-side scripting with Perl and CGI
[PDF] [PPT] Week 5 Lecture 2: Perl Language
[PDF] [PPT] Week 5 Lecture 3: Perl String Processing

Topic 3: Internet and Society

Topic Outline
[PDF] [PPT] Week 6 Lecture 1: The Internet and Human Development
[PDF] [PPT] Week 6 Lecture 2: Internet Accessibility for People with Physical Disabilities
[PDF] [PPT] Week 6 Lecture 3: Internet Accessibility for People with Different Cultural Backgrounds

Topic 4: Internet Application Development - Programming, Scripting and Mark-up Languages

Topic Outline
[PDF] [PPT] Week 7 Lecture 1: Introduction to Programming, Scripting and Mark-up Languages
[PDF] [PPT] Week 7 Lecture 2: HTML and XHTML
[PDF] [PPT] Week 7 Lecture 3: XML
[PDF] [PPT] Week 8 Lecture 1: Web Scripting Languages - Client and Server-side Scripting
[PDF] [PPT] Week 8 Lecture 2: Programming Languages on the Internet - Java and Visual Basic
[PDF] [PPT] Week 8 Lecture 3: Web Service Development Frameworks - Microsoft .NET, Sun's ONE, IBM's WSDE

Topic 5: Information Transfer over the Internet

Topic Outline
[PDF] [PPT] Week 9 Lecture 1: How Does E-mail Work?
[PDF] [PPT] Week 9 Lecture 2: Usenet News and Text Conferencing
[PDF] [PPT] Week 9 Lecture 3: Multimedia Transport over the Internet

Topic 6: Deploying Internet Technologies

Topic Outline
[PDF] [PPT] Week 10 Lecture 1, 2 & 3: Internet for E-Commerce
[PDF] [PPT] Week 11 Lecture 1: Government Online
[PDF] [PPT] Week 11 Lecture 2 & 3: Wireless Internet Services

Topic 7: Internet Security

Topic Outline
[PDF] [PPT] Week 12 Lecture 1: Security on the Internet: Cryptography, Digital Signatures, Message Digests, and Digital Certificates
[PDF] [PPT] Week 12 Lecture 2: SSL, SET and Digital Payment Systems
[PDF] [PPT] Week 12 Lecture 3: The Dangers of Active Content

Unit Conclusion

Topic Outline
Week 13: Unit Survey and Exam Information (see Exams page)