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Computer Science Principles: The Internet

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Explore the internet's history and the technology underlying the web, including IP addressing, web servers, URLs, and HTML.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
1. Internet Basics
  • How the Internet was born
  • Who manages the Internet?
2. Addressing and Routing Information
  • Sending and receiving information
  • The Internet Protocol and IP address
  • Scaling up the Internet from IPv4 to IPv6
  • The Domain Name Server and DNS
  • Routers and directing requests
  • Packets and fault tolerance
  • Reliability and TCP
3. Web Servers
  • Identifying a server with URLs
  • HTTP and requests
  • Hypertext and HTML
  • Remembering requests with cookies
  • Securing requests with SSL and TLS
4. Encryption
  • Caesar's cypher and keys
  • Improving security with longer keys
  • Symmetric and asymmetric keys
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Doug Winnie

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