Internet Technologies Lecturer: Francesco Ricci Academic year 2010-2011 - 2nd Semester

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Start date:  February 24th Lectures and Labs
Lectures:  Thursday 10:30-12:30 Room C4.01
Labs:  Thursday 15:00-16:00 Room E531 Dario Cavada, and Room E431 Mehdi Elahi
Hours of availability for students and tutoring: Thursday 16:00 - 18:00

Objectives: Internet and World Wide Web have modified in a radical way how individuals and organizations interacts, for business, learning or leisure purposes. With Internet millions of people around the world have access to an extraordinary amount of information, they can search it, exchange email, make phone calls, buy and sell goods and services, build and operate virtual enterprises. All of this is changing and will keep changing the world we live.
The goal of this course is to provide an introduction both methodological and practical to the most basic internet languages, architectures and applications, but also to illustrate some of the most challenging and innovative techniques on the fore. The goal is to provide a self contained introduction but also to motivate further study and provide prerequisite material for more focused and advance course on internet and www.

Syllabus

• Networking fundamentals
• Architecture of the web
• HTML and HTTP
• XML
• Dynamic web sites
• Java server pages
• Java servlets
• Web 2.0

Exam

• Final exam, written, 50 % of mark
  
• Some examples of the questions that you will find in the exam (pdf).
• Winter Session 2010/2011
• Projects must be uploaded not later than January 13th, 2012 (midday!).
• Written exam:
  
• Projects: the project consists in the design and implementation of a fully operational dynamic web site using Java technologies.
  • Projects are individual - 1 student one project - and counts for  50%. of the mark.
  • In order to be admitted to the written exam you must develop a project as described in projects.pdf and the project must get at least the minimum grade (9 points)
  • Info on projects content, structure, upload, evaluation and timing are here: projects.pdf  
  • These are two examples of excellent project reports of the last years: tabworld.pdf, codebase.pdf
  • An example of project with code bookmarket.war
  • Clarifications about how to upload the project (username and password to use) can be asked to Dario Cavada (cavada [at] ectrlsolutions [dot] com).
  • Projects' evaluations January 2012 - winter session 2011 (on top of the file)
    
  • Exams: Summer Session2011 Fall Session 2011 -  NEW  Winter Session 2011
    

Lectures:

1) Introduction to Internet and WWW: Feb 24

• Slides: pdf
• Reading material: from CN  book read: pages 1-9, 15-20, 50-59
• Lab material: Lab1_2011.pdf
  

2) WWW and HTML: March 3

• Slides: pdf
• Reading material: from CN  book read: pages 611-625. Read the BASIC tutorial on html on http://www.w3schools.com/html/, and read the BASIC tutorial on css on http://www.w3schools.com/css/ 
• Lab material: Lab2.zip
• Optional material: "Web Search for a Planet", by L. A. Barroso et al. pdf
• Good tutorial on CSS http://www.w3schools.com/css/
• Quick access to CSS properties http://www.culturedcode.com/css/reference.html
• Example of CSS use http://www.csszengarden.com/
• Yahoo! Grid CSS framework (Watch the video for 40min intro) http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/
  
  

3) Networking: March 10th

• Slides: pdf
• Reading material: from CN  book read: pages 26-45, 437-448, 579-588
• Lab material: lab3.zip
  
• DNS checking, Speed of connection http://www.internetfrog.com/
• dig (advanced DNS analyzer) for windows http://members.shaw.ca/nicholas.fong/dig/
• dig web interface http://www.kloth.net/services/dig.php
• DNS traversal http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/
• sub domain checking http://searchdns.netcraft.com/
• Graphical trace route http://visualroute.visualware.com/
• ip address converters to binary http://www.subnetmask.info/
• Example on rooting http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Networking/Networking_Basics/ROUTERS_Gateways_Routing_Table.shtml
  
  

4) Http: March 24th

• Slides: pdf
• Reading material: from CN book read: pages 625-629, 651-662. Read also HTTP made really easy
• Lab material: Lab4.zip

5) Dynamic Web: March 31st

• Slides:  pdf
  • Material referenced in the slides: EchoServer code  jar;  forms; servlets; javascripts 
• Reading material:
  • Read the section "Distributed and Multitiered Applications" in the Java EE Tutorial http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/bnaay.html
  • Read chapter 19 on CSJSP book (on Forms)
  • Read the tutorial on JavaScript (Sections: Basic and JS Objects) http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp 
• Lab material: lab5.zip

6) Servlets: April 7th

• Slides: pdf
  • Material referenced in the slides: forms.zip; code-lecture6.zip;  
• Reading material:
  • In the book CSJSP read: Chapter 3 (pages 65-86); Chapter 4 (Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.6): Chapter 5 (Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5)
• Lab material: lab6.zip

7) Servlets 2: April 14th

• Slides: pdf
  • Material referenced in the slides:  code-lecture7.zip;  
• Reading material:
  • In the book CSJSP read: Chapter 6; Chapter 7 (up to page 217): Chapter 8.
• Lab material: lab7.zip

8) Java Server Pages: April 21st

• Slides: pdf
  • Material referenced in the slides:  code-lecture8.zip;  
• Reading material:
  • In the book CSJSP read: Chaper 10, 11, 12, 13 (only section 13.1, 13.2, and 13.3)
• Lab material:  lab8.zip

9) Servlets 3: April 28th

• Slides: pdf
  • Material referenced in the slides:  code-lecture9.zip;  
• Reading material:
  • In the book CSJSP read: Chapter 9 (Session tracking), Chapter 14 (JavaBeans).
• Lab material: lab9.zip

10) Servlets and JSP together: May 4th

• Slides: pdf
  • Material referenced in the slides:  code-lecture10.zip; 
• Reading material:
  • In the book CSJSP read: Chapter 15 and chapter 16 (Expression Language). To refresh jour JDBC knowledge look at Chapter 17.
• Lab material: lab10.zip

11) XML:

• Slides: pdf  
• Reading material:
  • Read the XML (basic) and DTD tutorials on www.w3schools.com 
• Lab material: lab11.zip

12) Final wrap up and Web 2.0:

• Web 2.0: pdf 
• Reading material: Dive Into® Web 2.0

 

Resources:

The suggested books are:

• CN - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002
• CSJSP - Marty Hall and Larry Brown, Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Vol. 1: Core Technologies, Second Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, 2004. (PDF available online)

Other useful material

• WWW glossary: URI,
• HTML
  • HTML 4.01 Specification
  • HTML Tutorials: w3cschool, hypertext terms, 
  • HTML Editors
    • NVU: A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users
    • Alleycode: fast, sleek and highly productive award winning HTML editor
    • HTML Tidy: free utility to identify HTML mistakes and make the page accessible.
• CSS
  • CSS tutorials: w3schools
• HTTP
  • HTTP Specifications: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
  • HTTP Tutorials: HTTP made really easy,
  • Web Robots: the web robots page
  • Search Engines: SearcEngineWatch,
• XML
  • On wikipedia
  • XML 1.0: specification
  • XML editing and validation: XMLPro, XMLPad
  • DTD: specification - see XML specification
  • Schema: see this primer (at w3c)
  • XHTML: specification
  • SVG: specifications, tutorial and examples
  • VoiceXML: tutorial, specification
  • WAP: tutorial,
• JAVA
  • Servlet specification: 2.5
  • JSP specification: 2.1, pdf
    
• JAVASCRIPT
  • Tutorial: w3schools,
    
• Web Tools
  • Web master tools: a large collection of useful tools.
  • InternetFrog.com: DNS/IP lookup, BroadBand Speed, WHOIS, Browser Info, TCP query, Trace route
  • Markup Validation W3C: helps check Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML, SVG or MathML.
  • Link Checker: Checks anchors (hyperlinks) in a HTML/XHTML document. Useful to find broken links, etc.
  • Google's webmaster tools: provide you with a free and easy way to make your site more Google-friendly.
  • Netcraft: information and tools (e.g. the sites that are provided by a domain name)
• Web 2.0
  • Dive Into® Web 2.0