60-205 Schedule of Weekly Topics and Deadlines for Winter 2015
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Week 1
January
13 & 15
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January 8, 2014 Review the course outline and deadlines for assignments, project and exams.
Chapters from Comer:
Chapter 1 - The Internet Has Arrived
Chapter 2 - Getting Started: Hands-On Experience
HTML from The Help Pages:
Hour 1 - Understanding HTML and XML
Hour 2 - Create a Web Page Right Now
Hour 5 - Basic Text Alignment and Formatting
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Week 2
January
20 & 22
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Chapters from Comer:
Chapter 3 - Telephones Everywhere
HTML from The Help Pages:
Hour 3 - Linking to Other Web Pages
Hour 6 - Creating Text Links and Advanced Formatting
Hour 9 - Custom Backgrounds and Colours
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Week 3
January
27 & 29
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Chapters from Comer:
Chapter 4 - The World Was Once Analog
Chapter 5 - The Once and Future Digital Network
HTML from The Help Pages:
Hour 22 - Organizing and Managing a Web Site
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Week 4
February
3 & 5
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Chapters from Comer:
Chapter 6 - Basic Communications
Chapter 7 - The Local Area Network Arrives
HTML from The Help Pages:
Hour 7 - Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
Hour 8 - Putting Graphics on a Web Page
Hour 4 - Publishing Your HTML Pages
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Week 5
February
10 & 12
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Chapters from Comer:
Chapter 8 - Internet: The Early Years
Chapter 9 - Two Decades of Incredible Growth
HTML from The Help Pages:
Hour 11 - Using Tables to Organize & Lay Out Your Pages
Explain assignment #1, SSH
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Study Week
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Family Day Monday -- No classes this week.
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Week 6
February
24 & 26
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Chapters from Comer:
Chapter 10 - The Global Internet
Chapter 11 - Global Information Infrastructure
HTML from The Help Pages:
Hour 10 - Graphical Links and Imagemaps
File upload assignment is due at 11:59:59pm Thursday, February 26th.
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Week 7
March
3 & 5
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Chapters from Comer:
Chapter 12 - Packet Switching
HTML from Oliver:
Hour 18 - Gathering Information with HTML Forms
Index page assignment is due at 11:59:59 pm Thursday, March 5th.
Midterm test covering all material to date up to and including week 7 on Saturday
March 7 from 10:00 AM to 12:30 in Toldo Centre, room 100.
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Week 8
March
10 & 12
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Chapters from Comer:
Chapter 13 - Internet: A Network of Networks
Chapter 14 - ISP's: Broadband and Wireless Access
Chapter 15 - IP: Software To Create A Virtual Network
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Week 9
March
17 & 19
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Chapters from Comer:
Chapter 16 - TCP: Software For Reliable Communication
Chapter 17 - Clients + Servers = Distributed Computing
Chapter 18 - Names For Computers
Chapter 19 - NAT: Sharing an Internet Connection
Chapter 20 - Why The Internet Works Well
NOTE:- All web projects should be completed and uploaded by the end of this week so you have enough
time to make adjustments to errors which will be revealed during uploading.
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Week 10
March
24 & 26
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Chapters from Comer:
Chapter 26 - Group and Personal Web Pages (Wikis and Blogs)
Chapter 28 - Text, Audio, and Video Communication (IM, VoIP)
Chapter 30 - Remote Login And Remote Desktops (TELNET)
Web project due at 11:59:59pm Thursday March 26th..
The deadline is obligatory! Absolutely no extensions for any reasons.
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Week 11
March 31
April 2
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Chapter 31 - Facilities For Secure Communication
Chapter 32 - Secure Access from a Distance (VPNs)
Chapter 33 - Internet Economics and Electronic Commerce
Course evaluations will be held on Tuesday March 31st.
Click here for this
semester's sample Student Course Evaluation Form.
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Week 12
April
7 & 9
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Packets, Frames, and Error Detection (Not in any text)
- Long Distance Communication
- Byte Stuffing
- Transmission Errors
- Detecting Errors with Checksums
- Ethernet -- How it works
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Final Examination
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Monday, April 20th. 2015 at 7:00 P.M. This examination is
cumulative from Week 1.
Place: TBA
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Extra Stuff
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Additional Readings From Your Textbook (Comer)
- Chapter 24 - WWW Documents (HTML)
- Chapter 25 - Advanced Web Technologies (Forms,
Frames, Plugins, Java Script, Flash)
- Chapter 27 - Automated Web Search (Search Engins)
THIS MATERIAL WILL BE TESTED!
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