CIS 3 LM
The Internet

Bulletin Description and Syllabus

Description. A comprehensive survey of the design, implementation, history and use of the Internet. Data communications and network concepts, TCP/IP, client-server computing, email and web applications, HTML and client-side scripting tools. Security issues, financial and political applications, ethical concerns. (Not open to students who have completed any CIS course numbered 15 or higher.)
PREREQUISITES. Core 5 or CIS 1.10 or CIS 1.5

Topics:
  1. Email. Sending, receiving, forwarding, replying. Addresses, mailing-lists, automatic handling of email, etiquette and ethics.
  2. Web Clients. Browsing, search engines, "boolean" searches, regular expressions. Etiquette and responsibility.
  3. Telephones, analog communication, and the digital revolution.
  4. Data communication media. Modems, information coding, buses.
  5. LANs: ethernet and token-ring. WANs and packet-switching. Routers and interconnecting networks.
  6. Internet protocol. Addresses, datagrams and IP. Virtual circuits and TCP.
  7. Layered structure of network systems. OSI model, IP model.
  8. Client-server computing.
  9. The Domain Name System.
  10. Application protocols: SMTP and HTTP.
  11. HTML. Syntax, use, style guidelines, special effects.
  12. Client-side computing and Javascript.
  13. Security and security violations. Forgery, spoofing attacks, worms, sniffers, trojan horses, denial of service.
  14. Ethical and legal concerns. Privacy issues. The 1996 Communication and Decency Act. Commerce. Intellectual property. First amendment and workplace rights.