INLS 181: Internet Applications

Weekly Class Schedule

1. Monday January 24 (link to online class notes)
   • Introduction to the course
   • Brief history of the Internet
   • IP, the Internet Protocol
   • Brief history of the Web
   • Lab: Unix fundamentals
   • Lab: Getting started with HTML
   
   Read: Web section 1.1; "The Networking Mambo" Chapter 9: Unix; Webmonkey's Unix guide
   Due: Subscribe to the class mailing list by sending email to listproc@ils.unc.edu with the text "subscribe inls181-01 Your Real Name"
   
   
2. Monday January 31 (link to online class notes)
   • Movie: The KGB, the computer, and me (6:00 - 7:00)
   • Lab: Independent work on Web searching
   
   Read: Web sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1 & 4.2
   
   
3. Monday February 7 (link to online class notes)
   • Internet security basics
   • Client/server relationships
   • HTTPD
   • HTML: The <a> anchor tag
   • HTML: Paragraphs, fonts, lists, the body
   • Lab: HTML editors
   • Lab: More Unix
   • Lab: File transfer with FTP
   
   Read: Web sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.2; HTML sections 1.1 & 1.2
   
   
4. Monday February 14 (link to online class notes)
   • Telnet
   • SMTP, the email protocol
   • Mailing lists
   • HTML: Images
   • Lab: Graphics creation and manipulation
   
   Read: Web sections 2.1, 7.1, 7.2 & 7.3; HTML sections 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3; Webmonkey article, Photoshop Crash Course
   
   
5. Monday February 21 (link to online class notes)
   • Governing bodies: who runs the Internet
   • HTML: Multi-file sites, directories
   • HTML: Tables, text size and alignment
   • HTML: Lines, images, fonts
   • Lab: Scanning and optical character recognition (OCR)
   • Lab: More graphics
   
   Read: HTML section 1.3
   
   
6. Monday February 28 (link to online class notes)
   • Group communication
   • Organizational uses of the Internet
   • TCP and IP packet structure
   • HTML: Cascading style sheets (CSS)
   • Lab: Network news (Usenet)
   
   Read: Web section 8.2
   Due: Online resume
   
   
7. Monday March 6 (link to online class notes)
   • Programming fundamentals
   • CGI basics
   • HTML: DHTML, XML and the future of markup
   • Lab: Javascript
   
   Read: For reference, try Webmonkey's resources:
   • Javascript Tutorial
   • Javascript code library (these are code fragments - you need to work with them a bit before they do anything useful.
   • Perl/CGI pages
   
   
   
8. Monday March 13
   • No classes due to spring recess
   
   
   
9. Monday March 20 (link to online class notes)
   • (brief) Review for exam (bring questions)
   • Copyright of electronic materials
   • Lab: Chatting with IRC and instant messages
   • Lab: Web-based conferencing
   
   Read: Web section 5.1, 8.1 & 9.2
   Due: Brief term project proposal via email to Prof. Newby
   
   
10. Monday March 27
    • Exam: 6:00 - 7:30, in the lab
    
    
    
11. Monday April 3
    • (brief) Exam analysis
    • Privacy and electronic data
    • Lab: Sound
    • Lab: Audio conferencing
    
    Read: Web section 9.1
    
    
12. Monday April 10 (link to online class notes)
    • Convergence of media: The Internet and beyond
    • Commerce on the Internet
    • Lab: Multimedia production
    • Lab: Streaming audio/video
    
    Read: Web section 9.3
    Privacy reading: Chapter 6 from Garfinkle's Database Nation
    Not Due: Forum review and recommendation
    
    
13. Monday April 17 (online class notes)
    • Computer crime: issues and challenges
    • Lab: Encryption and security tools
    
    Read: Peruse CERT's Web pages, particularly tools, recent announcements, and procedures for recovering from an intrusion.
    Due: Forum review and recommendation
    
    
14. Monday April 24 (Online class notes. Also see the term project presentation guidelines)
    • 24x7 Internet connections
    • The business of Internet access
    • Lab: Term project presentations
    
    Read: Web section 1.2
    
    
15. Monday May 1 (online class notes)
    • Keeping informed
    • The future of the Internet
    • Lab: Term project presentations
    
    Read: Web section 10.1, 10.2 & 10.3
    Due: Term project