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The order of topics for Fall 2009/2010 is:

• Topic I: Introduction and Overview

  (A) Introduction

  1. What is CSCI3172 about?
  2. Many answers to the question What is the WWW?
  3. Introduction to this CSCI3172 website

  (B) Hypertext and the WWW

  1. definitions of hypertext
  2. potential of hypertext
  3. hypertext beyond the WWW?
     • The 7 issues
     • Universal model of WWW technologies [from HT07]
     • uncommon extensions to the basic WWW model [e.g. blue bull]

• Topic II: Web Basics

  (A) Client-side Computing on the WWW

  1. XHTML
  2. CSS
  3. Javascript

  (B) Server-side Computing on the WWW

  1. CGI
  2. SSI
  3. Servlets (with Java)

  (C) User populations

  1. current users/visitors
  2. potential visitors
  3. search engines
  4. accessibility

     Accessibility

     will be covered throught the course, and

     will be the focus of at least one assignment

  (D) Summation

  • What makes a good website?

• Topic III: Common Uses of the WWW

  (A) Technology-heavy Applications

  1. The Stateful Web
  2. Metadata and its uses
     • meta and link
     • Dublin Core
     • folksonomies and microformats
     • The Semantic Web
       1. introduction and overview
       2. RDF
       3. OWL
  3. Web Services
  4. perhaps RSS

  (B) Applied WWW Use

  1. search engines
  2. filtering
  3. the deep Web
  4. blogs
  5. wikis
  6. tags

• Topic IV: Techniques for Programming Websites

  1. Javascript and the DOM
  2. redirection and hijacking
  3. preserving and using state
  4. Ajax

• Topic V: The Web Graph

  1. description
  2. properties
  3. applications
  4. research avenues