Internet and Applications

Instructor: Dr. James McHugh

IT 202 Internet and Applications, 3 Credits:

Prerequisites: IT 101 and CIS 113 or equivalent. This course covers Internet Programming and applications. A variety of software technologies are used as vehicles to illustrate important general concepts in Information Technology, from the client-server paradigm to simple text-based protocols like HTTP. HTML is introduced as the standard tool for information layout on the internet and for transferring information to/from a server-side program. The standardized Document Object Model [DOM] for dynamic access to Html elements is illustrated using the Javascript DOM API. XML, together with its correlative Document Type Definition grammars [DTD], and CSS, are used to illustrate technologies for structuring information [XML] and controlling and uniformizing the presentation of information[CSS]. Additional Javascript concepts/methods, including patterns and event-driven effects are used to illustrate the power and utility of client-side processing. Java Server Pages are considered in detail, including the use of cookies and other techniques to preserve state information. Protocols like HTTP show how clients and servers communicate in a distributed environment. MS Access & SQL is presented sufficient to allow program-driven data base processing and leading to a software project for three-tier processing in a client-server environment. As time allows, miscellaneous topics of a general technological and practical import will be discussed, including data compression, search algorithms & web-crawlers, high-level web development tools, data encryption and security, etc.

CSE - JETT Conference

Java Engagement for Teacher Training (JETT)

Colorizer

CSE Talk