APRIL 1 --INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE: COURSE OBJECTIVES, REQUIREMENTS, DEADLINES, ETC.
- Surf through the Web pages for this class. This should provide you with a general feel for the direction of the course.
APRIL 3 --WHAT IS THE INTERNET?
READ:
- Levine, John R. The Internet for Dummies -- Chaps. 1-2, pp. 7-34
RECOMMENDED READINGS AND RESOURCES:
- Comer, Douglas E. Internetworking with TCP/IP. vol. 1 [3rd ed.] Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1995, pp. 49-56.
- Liu, Cricket, et. al Managing Internet Information Services. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1994, chap. 1 -- pp. 1-15.
- Quarterman, John S, The Internet Connection: System Connectivity and Configuration. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994, pp. 50-53.
- Huitema, Christian. Routing in the Internet. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1995.
- The GNN Interview: Tim Berners-Lee
- "Research Priorities for the World-Wide Web"
- Internet Traffic
- Goodman, S., Press, L., and A. Rutkowski. "The Global Diffusion of the Internet: Patterns and Problems" Communications of the ACM, vol. 37, no. 8 (August, 1994), pp. 27-31
APRIL 5 -- THE WEB
READ:
- Levine, John R. The Internet for Dummies -- Chaps. 4-5, pp. 54-76
- Hahn, Harley. The Internet Complete Reference. 2nd ed. Berkeley: Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 163-207.
APRIL 8 -- INTRODUCTION TO HTML: PART I
READ:
- Laura Lemay. Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 3.0 in a Week, Chaps 1-2, pp. 4-21.
APRIL 10 -- INTRODUCTION TO HTML: PART II
READ:
- Laura Lemay. Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 3.0 in a Week, Chap 3, pp. 46-69.
APRIL 12 -- IMAGES
READ:
- "Paintshop Pro Help screens" (paper copy on reserve in Knight Library)
- Laura Lemay. Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 3.0 in a Week, Chap. 9, pp. 234-264.
APRIL 15 -- INTRODUCTION TO UNIX
READ:
- Hahn, Harley, A Student's Guide to Unix. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993, Chap. 4 "Starting to Use Unix," pp. 23-25; Chap. 9, "Command Syntax," pp. 107-113; "File Permissions," pp. 393-400; "Summary of Unix Commands by Category," pp. 519-527.
RECOMMENDED READINGS AND RESOURCES:
APRIL 17 -- ELECTRONIC MAIL AND RELATED SERVICES
READ:
- Levine, John R. The Internet for Dummies -- Chaps.6-7, pp. 77-104.
APRIL 19 -- DISCUSSION GROUPS & "NEWS"
READ:
- Levine, John R. The Internet for Dummies -- Chaps. 8-9, pp. 105-146.
APRIL 22 -- INTERNET ANIMALS (GOPHER & LYNX) AND ACCESSING REMOTE SERVICES: TELNET, FTP, ARCHIE, ETC.
READ:
- Levine, John R. The Internet for Dummies -- Chaps. 10 pp. 147-172.
- Hahn, Harley. The Internet Complete Reference. 2nd ed .Berkeley: Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1996, Chap. 12, pp. 229-238, "Using the Web fron a Shell Account: Lynx;" Chap. 16, pp. 315-332, "Gopher, Veronica and Jughead;" Chap. 23, pp. 469-476, "Telnet: Logging into a Remote Computer."
RECOMMENDED READINGS AND RESOURCES:
- Hahn, Harley. The Internet Complete Reference. 2nd ed. Berkeley: Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1996, Chap. 24, pp. 477-484."Using Telnet from a Shell Account."
APRIL 24 -- FILE TYPES
READ:
- Levine, John R. The Internet for Dummies -- Chap. 18 pp. 319-330, and chap. 10, pp. 172-176.
- Hahn, Harley. The Internet Complete Reference. 2nd ed. Berkeley: Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1996, chap. 21, pp. 419-450."File Types Used on the Internet; Downloading Software."
APRIL 26 -- INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS: CHATS, MOOS, MUDS, GAMES, ETC.
READ:
- Hahn, Harley. The Internet Complete Reference. 2nd ed.Berkeley: Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1996, Chap. 25, "Talk Facilities," pp. 489-504; Chap. 28, "Muds" (just scan for content), pp. 549-571.
RECOMMENDED READINGS AND RESOURCES:
APRIL 26 -- ADVANCED HTML: TABLES, FORMS & FRAMES
READ:
- Laura Lemay. Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 3.0 in a Week, Chap. 8, pp. 194-229.
- Frames (from Netscape) -- ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PRINT DOCUMENT IN THE LIBRARY RESERVE ROOM
APRIL 29 -- NET HAZARDS: SURFING WITH SHARKS
READ:
- Levine, John R. The Internet for Dummies -- pp. 100-101.
MAY 1 -- MIDTERM EXAMINATION
MAY 3 -- JAVA AND JAVASCRIPT
READ:
- The Contours of Cyberspace: Java and Hot Java
- van Hoff, Arthur, Sami Shaio and Orca Starbuck. Hooked on Java.Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996 -- Chap, 1, "Introducing Java and Java Applets", pp. 1-4; Chap. 2, "Java and the Internet," pp. 5-19; Chap. 3, "Applets Explained" pp. 21-39.
- Read the JavaScript Basics in the JavaScript Guide on Reserve in the Library, and scan through the rest of the manual. This is also available online from Netscape
MAY 3 -- VIRTUAL REALITY
READ:
- The Contours of Cyberspace: Virtual Reality
- Ames, Andrea L., David R. Nadeau and John L. Moreland. The VRML Sourcebook. New York" Wiley, 1996. Chap. 1, "Introduction to VRML", pp. 1-7; Chap. 2, "Understanding Key VRML Concepts", pp. 9-19.
- Heim, Michael. The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, chap. 9, "Virtual-Reality Check," pp. 129-138.
RECOMMENDED READINGS AND RESOURCES:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/cyber/cyber1.html
