CMPS 002 - Computer Literacy

Prof. Paulo Franca

CyberSlug Rules!

Classes

Class Syllabus

Grading Policy

Labs

Interact

Login

  • enter system
  • get attendance
  • submit work
  • take lab quiz
  • check scores

Help

Help me!

Links

Staff only

 

 

 

Datacare   Ahshay

 

Internet issues:

Arpanet - unreliable on purpose

Anarchy, for God's Sake

Some of the services:

  • email
  • remote login (Telnet)
  • file transfer (FTP)

    --- combined into web browser - www

Why can't we tell much?

  • it grows too fast
  • it is anarchic
  • has no boundaries

Terminology:

  • TCP/IP
  • IP address ... set of 4 numbers (0...255) ex. 134.23.45.143
  • Packet Switching
  • PPP versus SLIP
  • ISP
  • Gateway Computer
  • DNS - Domain Name System - translates to IP address
  • Netiquette -- people don't see you or hear you!!!
  • Web Pages (next class)
  • home page
  • HTML
  • web page host
  • web page authoring
  • URL
  • Applets
  • Java