Note: this is not the current set of IAW notes as Dr Gail Reynard http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gtr now teaches this module.

G5BIAW: The Internet and the World Wide Web

See the module description for overview of topics to be covered and assessment.

NEW 10 March
I have not been able to contact our guest lecturer for today, hence we will have the third and final no scheduled lecture today (instead of the first day back after term break). Sorry for the late notice!

Older news

NEW 18 February
The lecture schedule has been changed again because the guest lecturer is unable to come this Tuesday (the 22nd February). His lecture will be re-scheduled in about a month's time (date to be announced).
In the meantime, we will have no scheduled lecture on Tuesday 22nd March (the guest lecturer will replace one of the "no scheduled lectures" from March).

NEW 16 February
The lecture schedule has been changed again to reflect the date fixed for our second third lecturer! Hopefully the schedule is stable now.

NEW 09 February
The lecture schedule has been changed to reflect the date fixed for a second guest lecturer.

NEW 02 February
It has been necessary to change the time of the Tuesday lectures in order to get a large enough lecture theatre. Tuesday lectures are now at
10:00am in LT2

Course Outline

N.B. The lecture schedule is still undergoing revision at the moment, as I arrange the guest lectures. The schedule is likely to change!

As we agreed in lectures, there will be three lectures freed up, due to the large size of the assessed coursework. At the moment, the lectures near the term break have been freed up.

Tue 01/02/2000
This lecture was abandoned because of the inadequate lecture venue. The proper lectures will commence on Friday 4th February
Fr 04/02/2000
Lecture 1: Overview of background of the Internet. Bulletin boards and newsgroups, ftp, telnet, email, mail servers and lists, everything that is not WWW (Lehnert).
Tu 08/02/2000
Lecture 2: Coursework being handed out today!
WWW introduction: what it is, how it works. WWW clients, how they work; http (S&Q, Comer)
Fr 11/02/2000
Lecture 3: HTML and other information interchange formats
Tu 15/02/2000
Lecture 4: WWW addressing technologies and linking; referential integrity.
Fr 18/02/2000
Lecture 5: Hypertext and hypermedia, what is it, what WWW does. How to make links - hand-made versus computed links. When to compute links and whether to save them. How to improve WWW's hypertext - open hypertext systems.
Tu 22/02/2000
(no lecture scheduled for today) - guest lecturer to be re-scheduled.
Fr 25/02/2000
Lecture 6: BBC Video on the Internet and WWW
Tu 29/02/2000
(no lecture scheduled for today)
Fr 03/03/2000
Lecture 7: Markup languages - XML
Tu 07/03/2000
Lecture 8: XML; Metadata for screening WWW content, PICS, RDF.
Fr 10/03/2000
(no lecture scheduled for today)
Tu 14/03/2000
Lecture 9: Presentation of Web pages - Cascading style sheets and XSL
Fr 17/03/2000
Lecture 10: Industry lecturer - Karl Wilcox from ICL to talk about Structured Documents and the World Wide Web
Tu 21/03/2000
Lecture 11: Security issues on the Internet Your courseworks are due at 4pm!!
Fr 24/03/2000
Lecture 12: Industry lecturer - Martin Roe from the Post Office to talk about Establishing Trusted Electronic Identities
Mid-semester break
Tu 25/04/2000
Lecture 13: Social issues: illegal/immoral activities; Intellectual property and copyright; Web ethics
Fr 28/04/2000
Lecture 14: Industry lecturer Tony Phillips from Quidnunc, talking about Real-world e-Commerce
Tu 02/05/2000
Lecture 15: Active and Dynamic Content
Fr 05/05/2000
Lecture 16: Industry lecturer Stephen Gaito from Nortel, talking about Managing a service provider's business
Tu 09/05/2000:
Lecture 17: Industry lecturer Russell Morgan from Unisys, talking about Public-key infrastructure
Fr 12/05/2000:
Lecture 18: Revision lecture talking about the exam

Coursework

25% of your final mark will come from the assessed coursework.

The coursework will be a small research project. You will be expected to write a report after doing some investigation.

The coursework is now available at: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~hla/G5BIAW/exercises/.

It is due to be handed in on Tuesday 21 March at 4pm.

Reference books

There is no set text for the course, but this section lists a number of useful references, both paper books and on-line resources.

Books:

(Lehnert) Wendy Lehnert, Internet 101: A Beginner's Guide to the Internet and the World Wide Web, Addison-Wesley. This book will be stocked in Blackwell's Bookshop, University. We will be using materials from chapters 7, 11, 12 and 13 in lectures. Most of it is a user's guide to the Internet and Web, and will be particularly useful for those of you who don't have much experience in using the Internet and Web.
(S&Q) Stephen Spainbour and Valeria Quercia, Webmaster in a Nutshell O'Reilly "Nutshell" series. This is really more of a reference book than a text book but still contains quite a bit of useful material.
(Comer) Many of you will already have Douglas Comer's Computer Networks and Internets from the G52CCN course. Chapters 25 to 29 will be useful reading for G5BIAW.

On-line resources:

The Internet 101 site
Comer, some lecture notes he has collected on networking
W3 Consortium's HTML Specifications
NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML.
On-line tutorial (dated 1995) giving simple instructions on CGI scripting

Last revision 15th May 2000, Helen Ashman.