Network Programming - Syllabus

This topic covers the key characteristics of distributed systems, including decentralization, resource sharing, and concurrency.

This topic explores the design goals of distributed systems, including scalability, fault tolerance, and security.

This topic discusses the different types of distributed systems, including client-server, peer-to-peer, and hybrid systems.

This topic presents a case study of the World Wide Web as a distributed system, highlighting its architecture and key features.

An overview of computers and their significance in today's world. This topic sets the stage for understanding the basics of computers.

Understanding the difference between digital and analog computers, their characteristics, and applications.

Exploring the key characteristics of computers, including input, processing, storage, and output.

A brief history of computers, from their inception to the present day, highlighting key milestones and developments.

Understanding the different generations of computers, including their features, advantages, and limitations.

Understanding the basics of URIs and URLs, including relative URLs.

Working with the URL class, including creating new URLs, retrieving data, splitting URLs, and comparing and converting URLs.

Constructing and working with the URI class, including resolving relative URIs and comparing and converting URIs.

Understanding and working with URL encoding and decoding using the x-www-form-urlencoded format.

Working with proxies, including system properties, the ProxyClass, and the ProxySelector Class.

Communicating with server-side programs using the GET method.

Accessing password-protected sites using the Authenticator Class, PasswordAuthentication Class, and JPasswordField Class.

Introduction to HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and its role in web communication.

Understanding the structure and components of HTTP request and response messages.

Overview of popular web application architectures and their characteristics.

Introduction to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern and its application in web development.

Understanding the basics of URIs and URLs, including relative URLs.

Working with the URL class, including creating new URLs, retrieving data, splitting URLs, and comparing and converting URLs.

Constructing and working with the URI class, including resolving relative URIs and comparing and converting URIs.

Understanding and working with URL encoding and decoding using the x-www-form-urlencoded format.

Working with proxies, including system properties, the ProxyClass, and the ProxySelector Class.

Communicating with server-side programs using the GET method.

Accessing password-protected sites using the Authenticator Class, PasswordAuthentication Class, and JPasswordField Class.

Learn how to guess MIME media types from a server response. Understand the importance of MIME types and how to determine them.

Explore the features and methods of HttpURLConnection. Learn about request methods, disconnecting from the server, handling server responses, proxies, and streaming mode.

This topic covers the sources of errors in numerical calculations, propagation of errors, and a review of Taylor's Theorem.

This topic explains the trial and error method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence.

This topic covers the half-interval method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence.

This topic explains Newton's method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence and application to calculating multiple roots.

This topic covers the secant method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence.

This topic explains the fixed point iteration method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence.

Learn how to use ServerSockets for serving binary data, creating multithreaded servers, writing to servers with sockets, and closing server sockets.

Understand what to log and how to log in a server environment.

Discover how to construct server sockets without binding.

Learn how to retrieve information about a server socket.

Explore socket options such as SO_TIMEOUT, SO_REUSEADDR, SO_RCVBUF, and Class of Service.

Build different types of HTTP servers, including a single file server, a redirector, and a full-fledged HTTP server.

This topic covers the challenges faced by e-government in terms of security and the approaches to address them. It explores the importance of security in e-government and the ways to mitigate risks.

This topic introduces a security management model for e-government, outlining the key components and processes involved in ensuring the security of e-government systems.

This topic delves into the architecture of e-government security, including the design and implementation of secure systems and infrastructure for e-government services.

This topic covers the security standards and guidelines for e-government, including international standards and best practices for ensuring the security of e-government systems and data.

Security measures for protecting data during transactions in e-commerce.

Various security mechanisms used in e-commerce including cryptography, hash functions, digital signatures, authentication, access controls, intrusion detection systems, and secured socket layer (SSL).

Exploring the javax.servlet.http package, including key classes and interfaces. Understanding how to use the package to develop HTTP-based servlets.

Introduction to the UDP protocol, its features, and characteristics.

Understanding UDP clients, their role in network communication, and how they interact with UDP servers.

Understanding UDP servers, their role in network communication, and how they interact with UDP clients.

Exploring the DatagramPacket class, its constructors, get methods, and set methods in UDP programming.

Understanding the DatagramSocket class, its constructors, sending and receiving datagrams, and managing connections.

Configuring socket options in UDP programming, including SO_TIMEOUT, SO_RCVBUF, SO_SNDBUF, SO_REUSEADDR, SO_BROADCAST, and IP_TOS.

Building UDP applications, including simple UDP clients, UDP servers, and UDP echo clients.

Using DatagramChannel in UDP programming for efficient and scalable network communication.

This topic covers the basics of multicasting, including multicast addresses and groups, clients and servers, and routers and routing.

This topic explores the use of multicast sockets, including the constructor and communicating with a group.

Learn how to design relational databases using ER-to-relational mapping, including mapping of regular entities, weak entities, relationship types, multivalued attributes, and N-ary relationships.

Understand informal design guidelines for relational schemas, including semantics of attributes in relations, redundant information in tuples and update anomalies, NULL values in tuples, and generation of spurious tuples.

Study functional dependencies, including definition, inference rules, Armstrong's axioms, attribute closure, equivalence of functional dependencies, and minimal sets of functional dependencies.