Multimedia

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Multimedia the WWW

• Week 1
• Introduction To.

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Todays Agenda

• Who I am
• Who you are survey discussion
• Course Description, Goals, Structure
• History of WWW
• Background Information
• Technology of WWW
• Next Weeks Assignment

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Who Am I?

• Stephanie Berger
• M.S. in Human Computer Interaction DePaul
  University class of 2001
• Over 5 years Web Development experience
• Over 4 years experience conducting usability
  research
• 1.5 years teaching HCI classes at DePaul

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Who Are You?

• Survey investigating your interests and skills
• Class discussion
• Are you employed now?
• Is your job WWW related?
• What technology are you familiar with?
• What kind of web pages have you built?
• Why are you taking this class?

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Course Description

• This course will introduce you to the WWW and the
  technology associated with creating WebPages.
• This will be done from a Human Computer
  Interaction standpoint.
• This means that you will learn how to develop web
  pages that are designed with the end users
  abilities, needs and limitations at the forefront
  of the designing process.

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Course Goals

• What the technology behind the WWW and WebPages
  consists of.
• What the basics are regarding files and images in
  terms of size format, structure.
• How to create user centered documents and
  applications for the WWW.
• How to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build
  such pages.
• What usability consists of and simple evaluations
  for measuring it.

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Course Structure

• Each class will have lecture, discussion and lab
  work or in class exercises.
• Reading is assigned for every class.
• Your homework will allow you to practice what you
  learn in the book and in class.
• The midterm and final projects will allow you to
  polish your skills and create quality work.
• The midterm exam will test on lecture, reading
  and the assignments.

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History

• Concept of The Net 1962 memo from J.C.R.
  Licklider of MIT
• IMP (1969)
• Packet Switching
• ARPANET (1972)
• NCP
• TCP/IP (mid 70s)

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History

• CERN
• NCSA
• Mosaic, 1993
• Netscape 1994
• Current Browsers Search Engines

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Background Information

• What is the Internet? A worldwide network of
  computer networks meant to share information
  through common networking and software protocols
• The Difference between the WWW and the Net

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The Technology

• WWW components
• Web Browsers
• IE
• Netscape
• Lynx
• Others?
• Client
• Web Servers
• URLs

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The Technology

• Protocols
• TCP/IP (mid 70s)
• HTTP
• FTP
• News
• File

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Technology

• Domains
• .com
• .edu
• .gov
• .net
• .org
• .mil
• By country
• Au
• Ca
• Fr
• uk

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Technology

• Using Telnet FTP
• SSH Shell Client
• Tucows.com

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Technology

• What is HTML?
• What are tags?

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Homework 1

• Read chapters 1,2, and 3
• Critique a favorite website and write a review.
• Read about FTP and your DePaul UNIX account.
• Find, download and install an FTP/telnet program
• Create a pub_html file in your hawk account, set
  the permissions, and FTP your critique to the
  pub_html folder of your hawk account.
• Email me the URL of the review document
• Determine business oriented topic of website you
  will create during this quarter.
• Bring a hard copy of your review document and
  written description of your topic to class next
  week.