Networking & Internet Programming

Network Goals, Kinds, HW/SW Requirements of Networking, Basic terminology associated with network, Njetwork topologies, Only a brief introduction of distributed systems, Concept of distributed Computing, Advantage & Disadvantage Internet protocol: TCP/IP, dialup access, direct access, three levels of internet connectivity, ISPs, Introduction to DNS.

History and evolution of Internet. Internet and intranet, Basic concept of www, HTTP, FTP, URL, domain name, IP address, web browser, web server, web page, web site, portals, email, chatting, usenet, telnet, newsgroup, fax, telephony, telecommuting, conferencing, searching, downloading, uploading, files on internet, search engines. Email (reading, ending, deleting, replying), voice and video conferencing.

Overview of Internet security, access security, transaction security, security zones, digital IDS, sending / receiving signed and encrypted emails. Introduction to firewalls.

Static and dynamic web pages. Introduction to HTML, HTML elements and tags, formatting with HTML tags, physical, logical HTML styles, setting fonts, colors and headings, displaying plain, presenting and arranging text using

Introduction to client and server side scripting. Introduction to Java script, data types, operators, conditional statement, loops in Java script, functions, arrays, objects and elements in Java script, Form validation using Java script. Introduction to XML, creating XML, documents, specifying attributes in DTDs, accessing XML data with XML Data Island, documents. Handling events while loading XML documents. AJS (Automated Java Script).