topical media & game development

topical media & game development

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  <h1>Lab Manual - Week 1</h1>
  
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  <li>Explain the difference between "the Internet" and "the World-Wide
  Web".
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  <li>
  Find out which port according to the current IANA assignment is used
    for:
    <ul>
      <li>HTTP</li> 
      <li>SSH</li>
      <li>FTP</li>
    </ul>
  
  In case you don't' know SSH and/or FTP, make sure you find out. 
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  <li>What is the IP address of <code>http://www.few.vu.nl>? And
  of <code>http://www.cs.vu.nl>? How are these addresses related?
  </li>
  
  <li>Explain the role of the <code>http://www.example.xxx>
  domains. At which IP address(es) do these reside?
  </li>
  
  <li>Look up information about the new protocol for IP addresses (version
  6). Describe the main
  features of this protocol and indicate what the reasons are to move
  from version 4 to version 6. (Expected length: half page)</li>
  
  <li>Find out who the registry operator for the <code>.nl</code> domain
  currently is. 
  </li>
  
  <li>What are the three essential technologies that enable the World-Wide Web?
  </li>
  
  <li>Find out what a 303 status code in response to a HTTP/1.1 request 
  stands for.</li>
  
  <li>Find out which MIME types of type <code>text</code> there
  are. </li>
  
  <li>Acquaint yourself with two different character encodings and describe
  the differences between the two. </li>
  
  <li>Compare two popular web clients, e.g. IE6/IE7 and Firefox. What
  are in your view significant differences?</li>
  
  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org">W3C</a> 
  is the organization that publishes Web standards such as HTML and
  CSS. Find out how this organization structured and how it is
  funded. (Expected length: 1 page)</li>
  
  <li>Summarize the main pieces of work  that <a
  href="http://www.w3.org">W3C</a> is concerned
  with in the "Internationalization" activity. (Expected length: half
  page)</li> 
  
  <li>The website <a
  href="http://www.archive.org">http://www.archive.org> stores old
  versions of the Web. Use this archive to describe briefly the history
  of Google or some other site you're interested in. (Expected length:
  half page)  
  </li>
  
  <li>Look at the following two HTML paragraphs:
  <pre>  
    &lt;p&gt;This is an &lt;strong&gt;important&lt;/strong&gt; point.&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;p&gt;This is another &lt;b&gt;important&lt;/b&gt; point.&lt;/p&gt;
  </pre>
  Explain why the HTML of the first paragraph should be
  preferred. Illustrate this with an example. Also, identify two other
  pairs of HTML constructs for which the same rationale holds.</li>
  
  <li>Describe the pros and cons of using frames in HTML.</li>
  
  <li>Identify one similarity and one difference between the HTML
  elements <code>span</code> and <code>div</code>.</li>
  
  <li>List potential benefits of using CSS. (Expected length: 15 lines) </li>
  
  <li>Create a Microsoft Word file with the text "Hello World!". Save the file as
  a Web page and inspect the HTML source (you can do this within
  Word). Describe briefly your findings.</li>
  
  <li>How would you expect a Web browser to render a emphasized word
  (i.e., included in an <code>em</code> element) in a paragraph with an
  italic font style? Check whether your browser behaves according to
  your expectation. </li>
  
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