Department of Computer Information Systems (CIS)
INTERNET NAVIGATION, Course # CISY-160
FALL 1998
Dr. Pratap P. Reddy
Professor & Chair of CSET Dept.
Room # N313
Tel. #: (908) 526-1200, ext. 8248
E-mail:preddy@rvcc.raritanval.edu
Web
Address:http://www.raritanval.edu/departments/cis/reddy.html
Purpose: This course instructs the student in the use of both local and global networks. It provides hands-on experience to develop skills necessary to retrieve information from Internet and other electronic catalogs. Students also acquire the skills needed to retrieve software from the Internet.
The following topics are studied: e-mail (pine), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Telnet, UNIX commands, Gopher, Veronica, Archie, World Wide Web (WWW), Netscape Communicator, Microsoft Explorer 4.0, and Lynx. Additional topics include: News Groups, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Internet Security, Privacy, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). Students also learn to design and publish their own home pages.
Hahn, Harley. The Internet Complete Reference. 2nd Edition. NY: Osborne McGraw-Hill,
1996.
Week Topics/Reading 1 Introduction to Internet, e-mail account, anatomy of e-mail message, e-mail, pine, pico editor. Read Chapters 6 and 8 My Notes on E-mail & Pico Editor Pine Tutorial Pine E-mail Guide Microsoft Explorer: E-mail Netscape Navigator: E-mail Eudora E-mail Tutorial Netscape Communicator Tutorial Netscape Navigator 3.0 Help How Internet Servers Work: E-mail Microsoft Outlook 2 UNIX fundamentals, basic commands, file structure, mailing lists Read chapters 1-3 and 22 My Notes on UNIX Commands UNIX Resources UNIX & Other Guides How to Publish Web Pages on a UNIX Server Sample Web Page 3-4 File Transfer Protocol (FTP): downloading text files, binary files. Anonymous FTP Read chapters 18 & 19 My Notes on WS_FTP95 My Notes on FTP from a UNIX Machine FTP Tutorial My Notes on Archie Test # 1 5-7 Telnet and Gopher Reading: Ch. 23 Telnet: Logging in to a remote computer Ch. 24 Using Telnet from a shell account Ch. 16 Gopher, veronica, and Jughead Ch. 17 Using gopher from a shell account My Notes on Telnet Telnet Tutorial Telnet Resources: Hofstetter's Internet Literacy book Veronica Search Gopher Lessons Archie Servers Archie Servers 8 News groups, Listserv Read chapters 13-15 USENET News Groups Help on Listserv My Notes on News Groups 9-12 World Wide Web (WWW) Netscape, Web Search Engines Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) Designing and Publishing homepages on the web Read chapters 9-11 Interactive HTML Tutorial by Dave Kristula Discussion of HTML Tags Web Search Engines Netscape Navigator Tutorial Top 100 Search Engines HTML Tutorial HTML Tutorials Images, Sounds, etc., from Microsoft Clip Art Test # 2, 9th Week Lab Quiz/Test # 3, 12th week 13 Other web browsers: Lynx, MS Explorer, etc. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Read chapters 12 & 27 My Notes on Lynx Graphical mIRC Program IRC Tutorial IRC Primer Lynx Tutorial My Notes on IRC Commands Research Paper Due 14 Internet security, privacy, ethics, crime Web Advanced topics: Java scripting, etc. Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig Search Internet World Magazine for Related Topics Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility 15 Course Review Web Page Project Due, 15th Week 16 Final Examination
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