INLS 181: Internet Applications

Class Schedule

This schedule will be ammended regularly to include links to class notes, updated readings and schedule changes.

1. Thursday, June 28 (online class notes)
   • Class welcome and overview
   • The Internet: What it is, how it works
   • Internet addresses and hostnames
   • Ping, traceroute, whois
   • The DNS
   • Protocols: what they are, why we need them
   • Who develops protocols? ICANN and others
   • TCP/IP
     Read 1.04-1.07, 1.11-1.16
     Due Confirm you are subscribed to "inls181_sumr@lyris.unc.edu" via the Lyris list Web page. If you are not subscribed, subscribe yourself by the start of our 2nd class. Also, confirm you have your UNC Onyen (you must know the password and username) via help.unc.edu.
   
   
2. Friday, June 29 (lab) (online class notes)
   • HTML creation
   • UNC Web page procedures
   • Unix fundamentals
   • Editing HTML files with pico
   • HTML: Structure of an HTML document
   • HTML: Tag identification, closing tags
   • HTML: Main components (body, title, html)
   • HTML: paragraphs, headings
     Read ATN's documentation on campus Web services, online at http://www.unc.edu/campus/aboutweb/. Especially Personal Web Page Guidelines and Creating Web pages at UNC. Also review ATN's Unix: Getting Started
     Due (Before class) Make sure you have your ATN/UNC Onyen and are subscribed to Web services, via ATN's Onyen Homepage.
   
   
3. Monday, July 2 (online class notes)
   • History of the Internet
   • HTTP
   • Web browsers
   • Web servers
   • Structure of an HTML document
   • HTML verification
   • HTML accessibility
   • Bandwidth considerations
   • HTML validation via validator.w3.org
     Read 1.07-1.11, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 9.1, HTML section 1.1, 1.2
   
   
4. Tuesday, July 3 (lab) (online class notes)
   • HTML: Colors for fonts, background
   • HTML: Special characters
   • HTML: Anchor tags, named anchors
   • HTML: Lists, lines
   • File transfer
   • File formats (binary, ASCII; application-specific formats)
   • FTP
   • FTP clients
     Read 6.1, ATN's Putting your Page on the Web
   
   
5. Wednesday, July 4: No classes due to Independence Day holiday
   
   
6. Thursday, July 5 (online class notes)
   • HTML: Tables
   • Email concepts
   • Email transport: SMTP
   • Email protocols
   • Email clients
   • MIME
   • Mailing lists
   • Internet directories for people & places
     Read 2.01-2.12, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
   
   
7. Friday, July 6 (lab) (online class notes)
   • PC-based HTML editors: Concepts and challenges
   • Netscape Composer
   • Dreamweaver
   • Frontpage
   • Cold Fusion
     Read: nothing, but refer to the WebMonkey Tools pages for background and tutorials on HTML editors
     Due Online Resume (at 5:00 pm)
   
   
8. Monday, July 9 (online class notes)
   • Information quality on the Internet
   • Web searching
   • The search engines
   • Searching parameters
   • Spidering
     Read 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2; Google Zeitgeist
   
   
9. Tuesday, July 10 (lab) (online class notes)
   • Image formats for the Web: JPEG, GIF, PNG
   • HTML: Images
   • Editing images with Microsoft Image Composer
   • Editing images with Fireworks
   • Editing images with Photoshop
     Read: GIF vs. JPEG on Webmonkey. Also, peruse Webmonkey's design & graphics pages
   
   
10. Wednesday, July 11 (online class notes)
    • Networking ubiquity
    • Wireless Ethernet
    • DSL, Cable modems
    • Satellite-based Internet
    • POTS modems
    • Ethernet
    • DHCP
    • Measuring bandwidth
      Read 1.2, ATN's Internet Service Providers and Laptop Mobile Computing pages.
    
    
11. Thursday, July 12 (online class notes)
    • Free software
    • Free versus Open
    • Downloading and installing software on your PC
    • Who writes the software you use?
    • Copyright primer: History and status
    • The DMCA
    • Copyright on the Internet
      Read 6.2, 6.3; ATN's University Procedures for Dealing with Possible Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights; Text of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (PL 105-304) via the EFF.
    
    
12. Friday, July 13 (lab) (online class notes)
    • Network news (Usenet)
    • NNTP
    • News clients
    • Searching Usenet on the Web
    • Web-based discussion forums
    • HTML: CSS
      Read 8.2; Newsgroup news.announce.newusers (after class)
      Due Search Engine Research and Evaluation
    
    
13. Monday, July 16
    • Security
    • Proxy servers
    • Firewalls
    • VPNs, Intranets
    • SSL, digital certificates
    • The KGB, the Computer & Me
      Read 9.2; Jerry Pournell's Byte Column on DDoS attacks.
    
    
14. Tuesday, July 17 (online class notes)
    • MPEG, MP3
    • Peer-to-peer networking
    • Napster, Gnutella
    • Freenet
    • Censor-proof networking and data storage
      Read: Hactivisomo's Statement on human rights on the Internet
    
    
15. Wednesday, July 18 (lab)
    • Midterm exam
    
    
16. Thursday, July 19 (online class notes)
    • SGML concepts and promise
    • XML fundamentals
    • DTDs, Schemas and style sheets
    • Query languages for XML: XQL
    • HTML: Frames
    • Conversion from XML to other formats
      Read XQL FAQ, Converting Unstructured Documents to XML (by Scott Means); WDG's position statement on frames
    
    
17. Friday, July 20 (classroom, not lab as originally scheduled) (online class notes)
    • XML markup
    • SGML and XML collections
    • Software for XML authoring
      Read 8.2
    
    
18. Monday, July 23 (online class notes)
    • Server-side programming
    • CGI concepts
    • CGI authoring
    • Simple CGI example: gform
    • HTML: Client-side programming with Javascript
    • Read ATN's Forms and Counters
    • Due Term project proposal by email to gbnewby@ils.unc.edu (11:30 am)
      Due Forum Listing and Review (5:00 pm)
    
    
19. Tuesday, July 24 (lab) (online class notes)
    • Instant messaging protocols
    • Instant messaging clients: ICQ, AIM
    • Online chatting with IRC
      Read 8.1
    
    
20. Wednesday, July 25 (online class notes)
    • Web-Database integration
    • Dynamic content
    • E-commerce
    • How do we get security on the Internet?
      Read 10.2
    
    
21. Thursday, July 26 (online class notes)
    • Gaming on the Internet: Multi-user and single-user
    • Text-based virtual environments (MUDs etc.)
    • Peer-to-peer
    • Central server
    • Peered server
      Read Cyber-Disorders by Kimberly Young et al.; A Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell
    
    
22. Friday, July 27 (lab) (online class notes)
    • Multimedia conferencing
    • NetMeeting
    • Sound and video on the Internet
    • HTML: Inserting multimedia
      Read Peruse Microsoft's Netmeeting pages
    
    
23. Monday, July 30 (online class notes)
    • Buying Internet service
    • Selecting a hosting service
    • Proprietary multimedia formats
    • Sample proprietary formats: Windows media, RealMedia, Quicktime
    • File types and plug-ins for the Web
      Read ICANN's FAQ; peruse Yahoo!'s Web Hosting Directories listings
    
    
24. Tuesday, July 31 (online class notes)
    • The present, the future
    • Personalized information delivery
    • Growth of the grey Web
    • Who has the best searching capabilities?
      Read 10.1, The Great CNet Spamoff
    
    Due on Thursday, August 2 at 11:30 am: Term Project