Syllabus: Lecture by Lecture Description

Broadly the lectures will be broken down into the following:

Lecture 1

: Introduction

• History and Development of the Internet

Lecture 2

: Anatomy of the Internet

• Basic Internet Technologies and Components
• Tools of the Internet/WWW:E-mail, ftp, gopher, telnet, Netscape
• Use of the Internet: What can the Internet do for you?
• The Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW)

Lecture 3-4

: How the Internet Works

• Network Topologies/Configuration
• Network Models
• Packets
• Network Protocols
• TCP/IP -- How messages are transmitted.
• Domain Names

Lecture 5

: Internet Tools and Resources

• What are they? How do they Work?
• Using E-mail, ftp, gopher, telnet
• Archie, WWW Search engines etc.

Lecture 6

: The World Wide Web

• What is the WWW?
• Basic Introduction
• Introduction to HTML

Lecture 7-8

: WWW Programming: HTML

• HTML Coding

Lecture 9

: WWW Programming: HTMl Forms/CGI

• Forms
• CGI Scripts

Lectures 10-15

: WWW Programming: CGI/Perl

• CGI/Perl Programming

Lectures 16

: WWW Programming: Further Interactive programming

• JavaSript (Use and what they are -- Some small programming examples)

Lectures 17-18

: Multimedia:

• Forms of Multimedia
• WWW support for Multimedia

Lecture 19-22

: WWW Design Issues

• Graphic Design
• Bandwidth and other problems