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The extraordinary growth of the international communication infrastructure known as the Internet has made possible tremendous new opportunities for research, scholarship and professional enhancement. The Internet will continue to evolve into a major component of tomorrow's global economy, and one that will provide enormous benefits to public-sector engineering research and practice.
Individuals and organizations wishing to take full advantage of this important resource will need to be well versed not only in the use of internetworking tools and resources, but knowledgeable about their basic structure and function. The Internet will become an essential tool for engineering research and development by the end of the century.
Internet Resources Design and Development
CEE-CE 597N 3 credit hours
Instructor Professor Jeff R. Wright
(wrightje@ecn.purdue.edu)
MWF 4:30 - 5:30 Three 1-hour lectures
Prerequisities Basic knowledge of UNIX.
One programming language.
Access to the Internet and
the TCP/IP protocol suite.
This course will provide students with an understanding of the underlying framework of the Internet and the tools that make it so valuable. Emphasis will be on developing information resources using existing delivery mechanisms including Gopher and Gopher+, Wide Area Information Service (WAIS) servers, the World-Wide-Web (WWW), and various Internet search engines and robots. An audacious attempt will be made to anticipate future Internet directions.
Introduction to the Internet and the World-Wide Web
CS 190W 3 credit hours
Instructor Professor H.E. Dunsmore
(bxd@cs.purdue.edu)
MWF 12:30 - 1:20 Three 1-hour lectures
Prerequisite none
An introductory course that covers the history of the Internet, electronic mail, the World-Wide Web, hypertext and hypermedia, features and facilities of Web browsers, Web navigation using hyperlinks, using bookmarks and hotlists, searching Web documents, putting information on the Web, finding information on the Web, types of connections to the Internet, security concerns, multimedia mail, file transfer protocol (ftp), and remote login (rlogin).
This course is intended for people who want to learn about the Internet and how to use the World-Wide Web, but it will be assumed that they have no previous experience with either.
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