The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
                Department of Computer Science

                   FALL 1995 COURSE OFFERING

Comp 190-025: World Wide Web and the Internet

Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:15, Sitterson 011

Instructor: John B. Smith

Ride (and understand) the rocket!  The World Wide Web is currently
growing exponentially.  Use this course to learn the Web and
understand the technology on which it is based. 

The course will include five components.  First, students will learn
to navigate the Web and develop knowledge of a variety of information
sources.  They will also learn both techniques and principles for
creating their own Web pages and information structures.  Second,
students will develop in-depth knowledge of a particular topic, build
a "guru" web that organizes and presents that knowledge, and link that
structure into an evolving class web.  Third, students will carry out
several web-related programming projects, including image maps, forms,
and scripts.  Fourth, the class will examine the architecture of the
Web and the Internet resources on which it relies.  This technology
will be compared with several other systems in order to explore
inherent limitations and possibilities for future development.
Finally, the class will consider some of the social and economic
implications of the Web.