CIS456-HTML: Pseudo-Syllabus

Requirements and Expectations

• Basic Knowledge of Networks:
  • Conceptual layered architecture.
  • Protocols
  • LANs
  • Internet experience
  • Other basic communication concepts
• Programming:
  • Knowledge of a high-level programming language.
  • Preferred knowledge of ‘C’
• WWW access:
  • You must have access to the Internet
  • With preference, you should have access to a graphical WWW browser (Netscape or Mosaic)
• E-mail:
  • You must have an electronic mail account.
  • It is required that you check your e-mail frequently (every day!)
  • Your presence on the Internet, WWW, and access to e-mail frequently is an absolute requirement!

Grading

• 60% Exams (2 Midterms, 1 Final).
• 40% Projects and Assignments (3 Projects).

Books Recommended

• Internetworking with TCP/IP volume I,
  Douglas E. Comer
  • CIS456 was designed closely around the latest version of this book.
• Netscape & HTML Explorer,
  Urban A. LeJeune
  • Up-to-date information on the Internet and the World Wide Web.
• Internetworking with TCP/IP volume II,
  Douglas E. Comer & David L. Stevens
• Internetworking with TCP/IP volume III,
  Douglas E. Comer & David L. Stevens.

Layout of Course

1. Introduction to Open Systems Networking
2. WWW and Complete Internet Connectivity
3. Need for Standards
4. Hardware Protocol Layers
5. Software Protocol Layers
6. Addressing in TCP/IP
7. ARP and RARP
8. Internet Protocol (Part I)
9. Internet Protocol (Part II)
10. Routing
11. Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
12. Extending the Addressing Scheme
13. Domain Naming System (DNS)
14. User Datagram Protocol
15. Transmission Control Protocol (Part I)
16. Transmission Control Protocol (Part II)
17. Multicast IP and the MBONE
18. TCP/IP over ATM
19. IPv6 and Broadband Services
20. Client / Server Paradigm
21. Sockets (Part I)
22. Sockets (Part II)
23. BOOTP and DHCP
24. TELNET and Rlogin
25. FTP, TFTP, and NFS
26. E-mail, SMTP, and MIME types
27. Network Management
28. Network Security

Layout of each Lesson

• Introduction to each new lesson:
  • Quick overview in the form of a outline.
• Actual lesson materials:
  • Slides based on instructor’s notes.
• Sample questions:
  • Pertaining to the current lesson (optional).
• Topic-specific reference materials:
  • Optional.

Reference Material Types

Books	Software (shareware)
Magazine Articles	WinSock application links
Web sites	Newsgroups
RFCs or other standard documents	Internet searches
Product descriptions (if applicable)	Technical papers

Projects

• Three major projects will be due:
  1. Setting up your own home-page or other WWW activity.
  2. IP Router / Gateway simulator.
  3. Client / Server programming project.

Virtual Office Hours

• Via e-mail or chat session any night during the week. Please contact me in advance.
• Before or after class for in-class students only.

Policies

• No cheating (blah, blah, blah)
• No grade for late assignments.
• Since exams are take-home, no late exams are allowed without my expressed verbal consent (minimum: 24 hours in advance).

Last Modification: (Wednesday, August 07, 1996)

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