IT 202

Winter 2021

Craig Miller

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• Basic Information
• Grades and Policies
• Schedule

Weekly Notes

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7
• Week 8
• Week 9
• Week 10

Assignments

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3
• Assignment 4
• Assignment 5
• Assignment 6
• Final Project

Technical References

• Mozilla Technical Documents
• HTML Tag Reference
• CSS Property Reference
• JavaScript Guide

Web and Internet Terminology

We will review these terms in class. Here is a good online resource that explains how web servers work.

• Web browser (client) -- Used to view web documents stored as a file on your computer or access from a web server on the internet.
• Web server -- Hosts web pages. A web browser can access a web page from the web server on the internet.
• HTTP (Hyptertext Transit Protocol) -- communication protocol for accessing a web page from a web server.
• SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) -- secure protocol for transferring files to a remote computer. We will use FileZilla (sftp program) to transfer (upload) web HTML files from your computer to a Web server. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a less secure method for transferring a file.
• Host Name -- name given to a computer, often a web server (e.g. studentweb.cdm.depaul.edu).
• URL (Uniform Resource Locator) -- serves as the address for accessing a web page on the internet. Used for accessing other documents too.
• Client-side scripting -- the web browser performs all calculations
• Server-side scripting -- the web server performs the calculations whose results are then displayed by the web browser

Here is an example URL: http://condor.depaul.edu/~cmiller/myPage.html

• http specifies the protocol
• condor.depaul.edu specifies the host name of the web server
• ~cmiller/myPage.html specifies the location and file name on the web server