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Web Basics

The World Wide Web- WWW – is the killer application of the Internet and a cornerstone of the digital world. To understand the digital transformation in society, business and private live one needs to understand how the Web is working. To this end this prep course provides all the Web basics. First, it explains how web documents are designed with HTML, named with URLs and transmitted over the Internet using HTTP. Then the design and functionality of live web applications are considered. Video streaming, a very popular web service, is explained in more detail before the course ends with an introduction to the principles of cloud computing.

  1. Course Start:

    (Self-paced)
  2. Estimated Effort:

    10:00 h/total

Web Basics

About This Course

The World Wide Web- WWW – is the killer application of the Internet and a cornerstone of the digital world. To understand the digital transformation in society, business and private live one needs to understand how the Web is working. To this end this prep course provides all the Web basics.

First it explains how Web documents are
  • designed with the hypertext markup language HTML,
  • named and identified with URLs, and
  • transmitted over the Internet with the hypertext transfer protocol HTTP.

Then the basic communication model is introduced, the client-server paradigm. Considering web applications, the functionality of client-side applications as well as server-side applications is discussed. As a very popular web service video streaming is explained in more detail before the course ends with an introduction to the principles of cloud computing.

Course Topics

  • WWW - the World Wide Web
  • URI, HTTP, HTML
  • Client-Server Paradigm
  • Client-Side and Server-Side Web Programming
  • Caching and Session Management
  • Video Streaming
  • Cloud Computing

Required Skills

General IT knowledge.

Course Level

Basics

Target Group

Requirement for students to all study programs of the German UDS.

Effort

About 10 hours

Course Staff

Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel

Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel

Christoph Meinel (Univ.-Prof., Dr.rer.nat., Dr.sc.nat., 1954) is the founding president of the German University of Digital Science, the first European digital university, and its learning platform German-UDS.academy. Until March 2023 he was for almost 20 years the managing and scientific director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH. There he developed and established the first European MOOC platform openHPI.de as a full professor (C4) for Informatics at the university of Potsdam with his chair for "Internet Technology and Systems" at the HPI. From 2017 to 2021 he was the founding dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty of the University of Potsdam. His research interests are broadly diversified in the area of innovative Internet applications and systems, especially in digital education and e-learning, artificial intelligence and deep learning, and Internet and information security. He is also active in the field of innovation research and investigates the Stanford innovation method design thinking. In his former research work he was active in telemedicine, as well as in complexity theory and efficient OBDD-based algorithms and data structures. Christoph Meinel is a member of acatech, the national German Academy of Science and Engineering and has publish more than 800 peer reviewed scientific papers.

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