Computer Science 999 (or whatever) Second Term (Spring Session) 1996

Advanced Webology

COURSE CONTENT:
This is a course covering advanced topics concerning the WWW. The course will have limited enrollment and be run seminar style, with all participants making at least one presentation. The initial presentations will be made by the instructors. Successive presentations will be made by the students and outside speakers.

PREREQUISITES:
The pre-requisites are CS 320 and permission of the instructor(s). Class size is limited to 20. If you are interested in taking the course, then please, click here, and fill out the form.

TEXT:
There is no formal text for the course. There will be a variety of readings and handouts and a small library of WWW books and source material will be made available to students in the course.

GRADING:
Each student will undertake a substantial project, make a seminar presentation, and be expected to participate in all seminar sessions. Your grade is based on the quality of your project and presentation.

ROOM AND TIMES: TBA (some of the lectures will be in a computer lab)

PROFs: Michael Levy and Frank Ruskey

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS:
Michael Levy is a long-time net afficiondo. He runs an e-zine on magic on the WWW and recently finished a sabbatical at Softwords, one of Victoria's internet providers.

Frank Ruskey is a relative, but keen, net newcomer. He is in the process of developing an object server, a mathematical tool that provides the user with lists of combinatorial objects.

Potential topics:

• Security issues on the WWW.
• What does it take to write your own browser?
• Copyright and legal issues on the net.
• How do they do that? (1) Usage odometers, (2) knowing what type of browser is reading your pages, (3) setting up maps in images.
• Creating and using forms, and the ins and outs of PERL.
• Using sound and movies.
• What is Java, how can I use it, how do I write Java applications?
• What are the future developments on the web?
• What are all those different data formats: jpg, gif, ps, etc?
• What is electronic money and how does on-line betting work?

Invited Speakers (we hope):

• Monica Schraefel.
• Will Kastelic. (running a server?)
• Ali. (network aspects?)
• Dave Godfrey. (communication aspects?)
• ???

INITIAL LECTURE SCHEDULE:

• Getting onto the web.
• Your first homepage, or beautifying the one you have.
• ???