Monday, April 24, 2017

Introduction to the Internet

Monday Lesson 8th May 2017.

Obtain brief notes on the following;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAesMQ6VtK8

  • Modem, internet service provider (ISP), bandwidth, download, upload, streaming audio/video, compression, decompression, cache
  • Features of a browser: for example, bookmarks, visited links, tabs
  • Adding functionality to a browser (for example, plug-ins)
  • Data-driven websites: for example, active server page extended (ASPX), personal home page (PHP), CMS website.
  • Site management: for example, web hosting, uploading, behaviour website marketing.
  • Other site use: for example, bounce rate, click-through rate (CTR), avatar, profile
  • Internet Marketing Strategies: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/278923
  • Internet of Things with examples.


What was covered last week;
  • Differentiated between HTML1 - HTML 5
  • Introduced the concepts of internet protocols and distinguished between a few of them.
  • Introduced the concepts of DNS and explained how DNS system works.
Tuesday Lesson 2nd May 2017;

You will be required to make short notes on OneNote on the following terminologies;
  • The internet
  • Web
  • Browsers and some examples
  • Search engines and some examples
  • Webpages vs websites
  • Languages used to build website; HTML, DHTML, Javascript, XML, XHTML, Java, Visual Basic.
  • Examples of softwares used to build websites.


We will use the following link to Introduce ourselves to the Internet.

https://www.slideshare.net/coastalgraphics/webintro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxcc6ycZ73M


Related notes
- Difference between HTML and HTML 5  http://www.differencebtw.com/difference-between-html-and-html5/

- Protocol summary; https://www.slideshare.net/sanjoysanyal/tcpip-basics


DNS notes; https://www.howtogeek.com/122845/htg-explains-what-is-dns/
                   
                   https://www.lifewire.com/introduction-to-domain-name-system-817512

                 
                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rck3BALhI5c



               

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