COMP2410/6340 Networked Information Systems

Welcome to COMP2410/6340.

Please check the announcement forum regularly for all course-related announcements. You may use the discussion forum to discuss all student-oriented issues relating to this course.

Course Information

Outline:	Given out in lectures and available here as a pdf document.
Schedule:	Please consult the ANU timetable for lecture and lab times and locations.

Lecturers

Course Lecturer:	Catherine Menon
	Office: CSIT Building, N341
Tutors:	Catherine Menon Jaison Mulerikkal Debdeep Banerjee
	Email: comp2410@cs.anu.edu.au


Guest Lecturers:	Paul Preston (Academic Skills and Learning Centre)
	Gavin Dispain (Canberra Web Standards Group & DEWR web site manager)
	Tom Worthington (ANU DCS Visiting Fellow)
	Paul Thomas (CSIRO Centre for Mathematical and Information Sciences)

Lectures

Overheads

Wed 27th Feb: Lecture 1 - Introduction to Networks.
Thu 28th Feb: Lecture 2 - Network Models.
Fri 29th Feb: Lecture 3 - TCP/IP.
Wed 5th Mar: Lecture 4 - IP Addresses.
Thu 6th Mar: Lecture 5 - Telnet & Ftp.
Fri 7th Mar: Lecture 6 - Email, SMTP & MIME.
Wed 12th Mar: Lecture 7 - HTML & XHTML and an XHTML example.
Thu 13th Mar: Lecture 8 - HTTP & SSL.
Fri 14th Mar: Lecture 9 - Topic Analysis and Essay Writing (Paul Preston).
Wed 19th Mar: Lecture 10 - Ethics and the IT Professional (Tom Worthington).
Thu 20th Mar: No Lecture
Wed 26th Mar: Lecture 11 - More XHTML & XHTML Forms and an XHTML & form example.
Thu 27th Mar: Lecture 12 - CSS and an XHTML example with style sheets 1, 2 & 3.
Fri 28th Mar: Lecture 13 - More CSS and an XHTML example with a style sheet.
Wed 2nd Apr: Lecture 14 - Web Servers, Proxies & Caches.
Thu 3rd Apr: No Lecture
Fri 4th Apr: Lecture 15 - Network Security.
Wed 9th Apr: Lecture 16 - Encryption.
Thu 10th Apr: Lecture 17 - Web Standards (Gavin Dispain).
Fri 11th Apr: Lecture 18 - Web Security.
Wed 30th Apr: Lecture 19 - Website Design - Introduction & Testing (Tom Worthington).
Thu 1st May: Lecture 20 - Website Design - Structure (Tom Worthington).
Fri 2nd May: Lecture 21 - Website Design - Design (Tom Worthington).
Wed 7th May: Lecture 22 - Website Design - Mobile & E-web (Tom Worthington).
Thu 8th May: Lecture 23 - Web Search - Introduction (Paul Thomas).
Fri 9th May: Lecture 24 - Web Search - Characteristics of the Web (Paul Thomas).
Wed 14th May: Lecture 25 - Web Search - Economics and Engineering (Paul Thomas).
Thu 15th May: Lecture 26 - Web Search - Other search topics (Paul Thomas).
Fri 16th May: Lecture 27 - Web Programming - Client-side with an example and a JavaScript file.
Wed 21st May: Lecture 28 - Web Programming - Server-side with an example and the script.
Thu 22nd May: Lecture 29 - Cookies.
Fri 23th May: Lecture 30 - Copyright.

Recordings

Unfortunately, owing to some technical considerations, recordings of the lectures will not be available.

Lab Exercises

Lab Exercises

Lab exercises will be made available the week before the lab.

Lab 1: Week beginning 17th March: Networks & XHTML.
Lab 2: Week beginning 31st March: XHTML, Forms & CSS with files lab2.html & lab2.css.
Lab 3: Week beginning 28th April: Security and Web Usability.
Lab 4: Week beginning 12th May: Web Page Design with files lab4_birdflu.html or lab4.html.
Lab 5: Week beginning 26th May: Lab 5 - Search Engines & Web Programming with files lab5.html, lab5.cgi and the lab5.cgi Perl script.

Selected Lab Exercise Solutions

Lab solutions to selected lab exercises will be made available after the lab week.

Lab 1 - Networks & XHTML.
Lab 5 - Search Engine Calculations.

Assignments

Assignment 1:	Ethics and the IT Professional. Due: 28 March 2008, 6pm. (Worth 10%)
Assignment 2:	Website Accessibility. The modified "Commonwealth Games" web page. Example style sheet handheld.css. (To save a copy of these files, right click on the link and choose "save link as"). Due: 23 May 2008, 6pm. (Worth 20%)

Exams

2008 Exam Details

Time Allowed:	3 hours plus 15 minutes reading time.
Total Marks:	100
Materials Permitted:	None

Note that COMP2410 and COMP6340 exams will be different. Make sure that you sit the right exam.

Past Exams

Past exams for this subject can be found at the ANU library online exams. (Note that exam solutions are not published.)

Discussion Forums

There are two discussion forums for this course. They are:

• InfoSystems.announce, and

• InfoSystems.talk.

The announcements forum is for accouncements regarding the course and postings will be made here by the lecturer. The discussion forum is for general discussions and any one of you can post here. In fact, you are encouraged to post here and generate active discussions. Note that the discussions must concern itself with material covered in the course.

Text Books

Set texts

K. Darlington, Effective Website Development Tools and Techniques. Addison-Wesley, 2005.

A. S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks. Prentice-Hall, 4th edition, 2004.

Recommended texts

J. F. Kurose and K. W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Addison-Wesley, 2003.

W. Lehnert, The Web Wizard’s Guide to HTML, Web Wizard, Addison-Wesley, 2002.

J. Lengel, The Web Wizard’s Guide to Web Design, Web Wizard, Addison-Wesley, 2002.

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