James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

CP3003:03

Internet Technology

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 2

26 hours lectures, 26 hours tutorials, 26 hours practicals. Semester 1.

Internetworking, network protocols and services, Socket programming, Domain Name Servers, network applications, web browser, web server, web server extension, web site architecture, security concepts: firewalls, protocols, scale and availability: load balancing, disaster recovery, web based database applications and web: architectures, writing applications, handling persistence, optimising performance, automated notifications

Learning Objectives:

  1. to have knowledge of the principles of internetworking and experience with modern network applications;
  2. to have practised simple design of web based applications.

Assessment by assignments (40%); final examination (60%).