Week

Topics

Links

1

What is a computer?
Basic electronics
The binary world
Computer hardware and software

Basic electronics concepts
How to convert from binary to decimal
The von Neumann Architecture of Computer Systems
MIT Electronics and Computer Science Courses (free and online)

2

Network architecture
IP addressing
How the web works
The Domain Name System
Domain Name registrars
Registering a domain name
Web hosts and what they do
Setting up a hosting account

What is networking?
What is an IP address?
Basic web architecture

3

Principles of markup languages
Introduction to HTML
Website structure
Copyright issues and the web

4

Designing a website
Web graphics concepts
User interface issues
Creating content

5

Cascading style sheets
FTP concepts and clients
File uploads and downloads
Maintenance issues
Introduction to XML

6

Code editors
Object-oriented programming principles
Introduction to JavaScript

7

JavaScript coding
Web databases

8

Web based applications
Computer languages
Careers in computers