CSCI A348
Mastering the World-Wide Web

Spring `96 Course Syllabus

Perl

• Perl's niche and its role in the Web.
• Syntax and semantics.
• Writing and running Perl scripts.
• Throw-away hacks vs reliable, useful code.
• Perl beyond the textbook.

Introduction to Advanced Web Topics

• History, evolution and future of the Web.
• Significance and impact of the Web.
• Web terminology, context, models.

Web Server Administration

• Hardware, software and network considerations.
• Configuration and installation.
• Maintenance and reliability.
• Monitoring and statistics.
• System security.
• Management policy and procedure.

Web Technology

• The Internet: the basis of the Web.
• Internet communication protocols and URLs.
• HTTP, HTML and CGI.
• Web standards and their evolution.
• Web clients, servers and gateways.
• Web searching, indexing and cataloging.

Web Design

• Information structure.
• Approaches to hypertext.
• Function vs style.
• Graphics, multimedia and interactivity.

Java: Programming Across the Web

• Java and JavaScript.
• Promise and potential.
• Syntax, semantics and APIs.
• Writing and running applets.

VRML: Toward Cyberspace

• Virtual Reality Modeling Language.
• Promise and potential.
• Syntax and semantics.
• Writing and using VRML worlds.