B211 Internet Computing

Lectures

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Unit Introduction

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

Topic 1: The Global Network

Topic Outline
Week 1 Lecture 2 & 3: What is this thing called the Internet? [PDF] [PPT]
Week 2 Lecture 1: Long-Haul Backbone Networks [PDF] [PPT]
Supplement to Week 2 Lecture 1 [PDF] [PPT]
Week 2 Lecture 2: Access Networks [PDF] [PPT]
Week 2 Lecture 3: How the Internet is controlled and payed for [PDF] [PPT]

Topic 2: The World Wide Web

Topic Outline
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, 2 & 3: Client-side Programming with JavaScript [PDF] [PPT]
Week 5 Lecture 1: Server-side Programming with PHP [PDF] [PPT]
Week 5 Lecture 2 & 3: PHP Language [PDF] [PPT]

Topic 3: Internet Content and Transport

Topic Outline
Week 6 Lecture 1: Search Engines [PDF] [PPT]
Week 6 Lecture 2 & 3: Web Proxies [PDF] [PPT]
Week 7 Lecture 1, 2 & 3: Multimedia Delivery over the Internet [PDF] [PPT]

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

Topic Outline
Week 8 Lecture 1: Introduction to Programming, Scripting and Mark-up Languages [PDF] [PPT]
Week 8 Lecture 2: HTML, CSS and DHTML [PDF] [PPT]
Week 8 Lecture 3: XML [PDF] [PPT]
Week 9 Lecture 1: Web Server-side Scripting - PHP, ASP, Perl/CGI, JSP, ColdFusion and XSSI [PDF] [PPT]
Week 9 Lecture 2: Web Services and Application Development Frameworks - Java vs .NET [PDF] [PPT]
Week 9 Lecture 3: Web-Site Design vs Web-Site Programming [PDF] [PPT] [PPT with full screen dump images - 1.5Mb]

Topic 5: Deploying Internet Technologies

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

Topic 6: Internet Security

Topic Outline
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 Electronic Payment Systems [PDF] [PPT]
Week 12 Lecture 3: The Dangers of Active Content [PDF] [PPT]

Unit Conclusion

Topic Outline
Week 13: Unit Summary and Exam Revision