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Untangling the Web: : How the Internet Works

Below are summaries of the material covered in each week's lectures. Topics and details do arise during the course of the class meetings that are not anticipated nor reflected here, therefore, as you recall what has been accomplished there is no substitute for having been to the lectures and having taken notes on your own.

Week 1: Aug 25-29 Information Revolution

Week 2: Sept 1-5 ARPANET to Internet

  • Reading: continue from Week 1
  • Lectures: URL, TCP/IP, DNS, packets demo,
        Bandwidth
        ICANN and TLDs
        New TLD
        Whois
        Humor
    to Moscow
  • Quizzes: Online Quiz 1 due Friday noon: Info Revolution, Internet/WWW, Registrars, domain names, TLD

Week 3: Sept 8-12 HTML, image maps, forms, CGI

  • Reading: 10.1, 10.2 (HTML), 10.3 (CSS - know basics of CSS and how to tweak a CSS template), 9.5 (Publishing websites)
    10.4 (ImageMaps - Optional)
    10 Advanced Layers p.768 (div tag - Optional)
  • Lectures:    
    HTML, "View Source", Create a web page, Upload to Yahoo geocities, Using CSS templates
          CSS Zen Garden,
            HTML

Week 4: Sept 15 - 19

Week 5: Sept 22 - 26

  • Reading:
            Chapter 4.2 Blogs, 4.4 RSS (not 4.4.3)
            WordPress on Freehostia         Blogging
  • Lectures:
            FreeHostia, WordPress, widgets, adding themes, editing themes, posts, comment control, spam, blogging, RSS feeds
  • Project: Project details are now available
  • Quizzes: Online Quiz 3 due Friday 6pm: Week 4 material

Week 6: Sep 29 - Oct 3

  • Reading: Google Adsense and other ways to make money on the internet,
    9.1, 9.2 (©), 9.3 (Design), 9.6 (Image formats), 9.7 (Colors), 9.8 (Background Patterns), 9.11 (Website Checklist), Above and Beyond pp. 662-676 (download times, thumbnail previews, interlaced GIFs, transparency, increase traffic, browser issues)

            embedding YouTube, GIF89a

    Chapter 4 Web 2.0

  • Lectures:
    Free Stock Photography
    Morgue File free stock photos
    Transparency
    Color Values
  • Project: Project details are now available
  • Quizzes: Online Quiz 4 due Friday 6pm: Week 5 material

Week 7: Oct 6 - 10

  • Reading:
  • Lectures:
            Oct 7 MID-TERM 1

            Oct 8 Project something due

            Oct 9 Lecture in computer lab, 3rd floor North lab in UNVSC building

  • Project: Project Something due
  • Quizzes: Online Quiz 5 due Friday 6pm: Week 6 material

Week 8: Oct 13 - 17

Week 9: Oct 20 - 24

Week 10: Oct 27 - 31

Week 11: Nov 3 - 7

  • Reading:
            Chapter 8: Encryption
            VPN: Site to Site
            VPN at Colostate.edu
  • Lectures: Encryption, VPN, video on the web
  • Quizzes: Online Quiz 8 due Friday 6pm: Safety, BitTorrent, Open source, Spyware, P2P

Week 12: Nov 10 - 14

  • Lectures: Tuesday Nov 11 Meet in computer lab - help with video and Google Adsense
    Thursday Nov 13 MID-TERM 2

Week 13: Nov 17 - 21

  • Reading:
            Chapter 7: E-commerce
  • Lectures: E-commerce
    Future of the Internet
  • Quizzes: Online Quiz 9 due Friday 6pm: Encryption

Fall Break: Nov 24 - Nov 28

Week 14: Dec 1 - 5

Week 15: Dec 8 - 12

  • Lectures: Project Presentations

    Tuesday order:

    1. Calvin
    2. Kristian
    3. Matt
    4. Seth
    5. Kendall
    6. Chris
    7. Ashley
    8. Robert
    9. Greg

    Thursday order:

    1. Evan
    2. Quinton
    3. Sarah
    4. William
    5. Leslie
    6. Kaitlin
    7. Rumina
    Handouts will be given each day for you to give your feedback on each presentation (part of project grade).

FINAL EXAM: Dec. 16 Tuesday 3:40-4:40 pm (Comprehensive) in our lecture room

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