Transcript Lecture 1 Tuesday 25th Sept 01

Internet Skills
ELEC135
Alan Noble
Room 504
Tel: 0151 79 44562
(44562 internal)
[email protected]
Overview of the module
Aims
 To introduce the internet
 To review the basic protocols
 To introduce the language used to write
web-pages
 To indicate future developments
 To provide you with practical skills
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Topics Covered
 What is the internet?
A short history and how it developed.
 Servers (responsibility, common servers).,
communication links. Introduce URL's.
Overview of TCP/IP
 Hypertext and protocols HTTP, FTP, Web
browsers. What is a web-page?
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Topics Covered (continued)
 Introduction to HTML. Text - font, size, colour.
Hyperlinks. Alignment and tables. Adding images
and multi-media content.
 Further HTML - Frames forms and image maps.
Style sheets. Java script. The future of HTML,
DHTML, XML Active Server Pages.
 Web authoring tools. Managing a web site.
Where? How many pages. What should the page
look like? Helping people find the site.
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Topics Covered (continued)
 Finding information on the Web. Search
engines. How to search. How do search
sites locate information (Meta tags and
web-crawlers).
 e-commerce. What is it? Security on the
internet.
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Course Structure
Continual Assessment
No Exam
Primarily a learning process
Assessment is a secondary exercise
NO RESIT !
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Assignments MARKING
A ++
90 – 100
A+
80 – 89
A
70 - 79
B
60 - 69
C
50 - 59
D
40 - 49
F
<40
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Use ACME !
http://acme.eeng.liv.ac.uk
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