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02 February 2021

preps | networks | internetworks



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Class Schedule

Basics | sessions 01-03
  1. 19 Jan intro and clients | lecture | labs
  2. 26 Jan servers and command line | lecture | labs
  3. 02 Feb networks and protocols | lecture | labs
Web Development | sessions 04-08

  1. 09 Feb structural layer | lecture | labs
  2. 16 Feb presentational layer | lecture | labs
  3. 23 Feb using a structure | lecture | labs
  4. 02 Mar behavioral layer | lecture | labs
  5. 09 Mar design thoughts | lecture | labs
Dealing with Markup | sessions 09-10
  1. 16 Mar control objects and display | lecture | labs
  2. 23 Mar tools that read markup | lecture | labs
Working with data | sessions 11-14
  1. 30 Mar formulas, functions, vectors | lecture | labs
  2. 06 Apr data display | lecture | labs
  3. 13 Apr manipulate data sets | lecture | labs
  4. 20 Apr relational data bases | lecture | labs
Presentations | sessions 15-16
  1. 27 Apr designing a presentation | lecture | labs
  2. 04 May delivering a presentation | lecture | labs


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Preparations for Networks and Protocols session

on Local Area Networks

read these sections of How Ethernet Works by Nick Pidgeon in How Stuff Works (they are short, so you can read more if you wish)

  1. Introduction to How Ethernet Works
  2. Why Network?
  3. Local Area vs. Wide Area
  4. The Ethernet
  5. Ethernet Basics
  6. Ethernet Terminology
  7. Ethernet Medium

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on The Internet, a network of networks

First watch this TED talk about the physical part of the Internet

Then glance over these sections of How Internet Infrastructure Works by Jeff Tyson in How Stuff Works [they are short]

  1. Introduction to How Internet Infrastructure Works
  2. A Hierarchy of Networks
  3. A Network Example
  4. Bridging The Divide
  5. Backbones
  6. Internet Protocol: IP Addresses
  7. Internet Protocol: Domain Name System
  8. Uniform Resource Locators
  9. A DNS Example
  10. Clients and Servers
  11. Ports

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Other items relevant to today's class

  1. 50 years of the Internet: half a century of light and shadow
  2. Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet’s Precursor, Dies at 81
  3. What is the internet? 13 key questions answered
  4. Internet topology: What does the Internet look like?
  5. In an eye-blink, ...
  6. It was a really bad month for the internet
  7. The infrastructure mess causing countless internet outages
  8. How A Small ISP in Pennsylvania Tanked a Big Chunk of the Web on Monday
  9. Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet
  10. Russia wants to cut itself off from the global internet. Here’s what that really means.
  11. Russia Takes a Big Step Toward Internet Isolation
  12. The Top 10 Internet Browsers for 2019
  13. Google takes its first steps toward killing the URL

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02 February Lecture | preps | networks | internetworks