Computer Science 403, Section 1
Summer Semester 2008, CRN: 30094
Mondays and Wednesdays
6:10 to 8:30 PM in Iddles L2 and via Farview
Introductory course covering basic topics relating to the Internet. Subjects discussed include e-mail, newsgroups, mailing lists, file transfer, telnet, the World Wide Web, Web browsers, search engines, and hypertext markup language (HTML). A large portion of the course focuses on Web publishing. Security and privacy issues, and commerce and legal issues are also discussed. Students are expected to have no previous experience with HTML. They will acquire new skills as well as broad understanding of the technical possibilities of living and working in an online society and its implications.
There are several sections of CS403, taught by a variety of instructors. Although all these instructors endeavor to follow the general direction set by the course description above, each instructor designs a course that reflects their own objectives.
Students successfully completing my sections of CS403 should be able to:
We may touch on the other topics mentioned in the course description as we go along, but if you are looking for a course that emphasizes one of them, you may wish to check with the instructors for other sections.