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
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.
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.
