Transcript Course Intro - DePaul University

Multimedia & the WWW
Week 1
Introduction To….
Today’s Agenda
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Who I am
Who you are survey & discussion
Course Description, Goals, Structure
History of WWW
Background Information
Technology of WWW
Next Week’s Assignment
Who Am I?
 Stephanie
Berger
M.S. in Human Computer Interaction
DePaul University [class of 2001]
 Over 5 years Web Development experience
 Over 4 years experience conducting
usability research
 1.5 years teaching HCI classes at DePaul
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Who Are You?
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Survey investigating your interests and skills
Class discussion
 Are you employed now?
 Is your job WWW related?
 What technology are you familiar with?
 What kind of web pages have you built?
 Why are you taking this class?
Course Description
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This course will introduce you to the WWW
and the technology associated with creating
WebPages.
This will be done from a Human Computer
Interaction standpoint.
This means that you will learn how to develop
web pages that are designed with the end
user’s abilities, needs and limitations at the
forefront of the designing process.
Course Goals
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What the technology behind the WWW and
WebPages consists of.
What the basics are regarding files and
images in terms of size format, structure.
How to create user centered documents and
applications for the WWW.
How to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to
build such pages.
What usability consists of and simple
evaluations for measuring it.
Course Structure
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Each class will have lecture, discussion and
lab work or in class exercises.
Reading is assigned for every class.
Your homework will allow you to practice
what you learn in the book and in class.
The midterm and final projects will allow you
to polish your skills and create quality work.
The midterm exam will test on lecture,
reading and the assignments.
History
Concept of The ‘Net 1962 memo from
J.C.R. Licklider of MIT
 IMP (1969)
 Packet Switching
 ARPANET (1972)
 NCP
 TCP/IP (mid 70’s)
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History
CERN
 NCSA
 Mosaic, 1993
 Netscape 1994
 Current Browsers & Search Engines
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Background Information
What is the Internet?
“A worldwide network of computer
networks meant to share information
through common networking and
software protocols”
 The Difference between the WWW and
the ‘Net
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The Technology
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WWW components
Web Browsers
 IE
 Netscape
 Lynx
 Others?
 Client
 Web Servers
 URLs
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The Technology
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Protocols
TCP/IP (mid ’70s)
 HTTP
 FTP
 News
 File
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Technology
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Domains
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.com
.edu
.gov
.net
.org
.mil
By country
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Au
Ca
Fr
uk
Technology
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Using Telnet & FTP
 SSH Shell Client
 Tucows.com
Technology
What is HTML?
 What are tags?
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Homework 1
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Read chapters 1,2, and 3
Critique a favorite website and write a review.
Read about FTP and your DePaul UNIX account.
Find, download and install an FTP/telnet program
Create a pub_html file in your hawk account, set the
permissions, and FTP your critique to the pub_html
folder of your hawk account.
Email me the URL of the review document
Determine business oriented topic of website you will
create during this quarter.
Bring a hard copy of your review document and
written description of your topic to class next week.