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-- DonaldActon - 05 Jul 2011

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I could imagine starting out with the initial focus being on basic networking. We would look at things like Socket Programming, the TCP/IP model of data streaming and what a protocol is. From there we would add more structure and look at things like the client server model, handling network errors (e.g. connection failure), the structure of the Internet and some distributed programming paradigms like publish/subscribe. At this point students should be able to write a basic application that lives on the Internet.

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The next phase explores applications that are packet oriented services opposed to a byte stream like TCP. The intention is to motivate this section by introducing multimedia applications and seeing the need for a transport layer with different service properties. Students will be introduced to UDP (or some other transport type protocol that does not provide delivery or ordering guarantees) and exposed to how DNS works. (Note to self look for fast DNS, location DNS, basically DNS that uses some location information to return different results.)

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The next phase explores applications that uses packet oriented services opposed to a byte stream like TCP. The intention is to motivate this section by introducing multimedia applications and seeing the need for a transport layer with different service properties. Students will be introduced to UDP (or some other transport type protocol that does not provide delivery or ordering guarantees) and exposed to how DNS works. (Note to self look for fast DNS, location DNS, basically DNS that uses some location information to return different results.)

The final part of the course will focus on the "cloud" (could be motivated by things like app stores) and the rationale behind it. A section of this might also focus on public/private keys, SSL connections etc, which are key pieces of technology used to secure connections for stuff like banking and online retail.