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A Network Programming Lecture by Steven Choy

Course Introduction (1 lecture)

What will you get after completing this course? What do you need to do in the coming 8 months? How about the course contents and their organization? Do you need to buy a textbook for the course study? What will you do in tutorial class? Are there any practical and laboratory exercises for you? Do you need to do assignments or projects?

Introduction to Networking (2 lectures)

Networking Stacks and Layers - Internet Protocol - IP Addressing -- IP Addressing - for Private Networks - IP Subnets - TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) - UDP (User Datagram Protocol) - Domain Name System - Firewalls and Proxy Servers - Internet Protocol version 6 - Overview of basic concepts for network programming

Introduction to Java Programming (1 lecture)

The Java Virtual machine - Different editions of Java - Install Java SE Development Kit (JDK) - A Simple Java Program - Primitive Data Types - Program Flow Controls - Object-oriented programming with Java

Network Programming in Java - Part One (1 lecture)

The InetAddress class - Overview of using socket - the Socket class - General operations of building a TCP client program - Case study: Daytime service.

Network Programming in Java - Part Two (1 lecture)

Develop server-side programs using sockets and streams - Using the ServerSocket class - General operations of server program - Daytime Server Program in Java - Building an echo server

Java Programming - Exceptional Handling (1 lecture)

Introduction to exception handling - Java's way of handling exceptional events - Java's exception handling mechanism - Java's exception objects - Checked exceptions and unchecked exceptions - How and when to throw an exception - When should we use the throws keyword - Advantages of using Java's way to handle exceptions - Class exercises

Java Programming - Multithreading (1 lecture)

Introduction to Multithreading - Creating and Running Threads in Java - Thread Subclass - Runnable Implementation - Other Major Thread Concepts

Network Programming in Java - Part Three (1 lecture)

Introduction to datagram networking - Connection-oriented vs connectionless networking - Using classes DatagramPacket and DatagramSocket - Datagram applications

Network Programming in Java - Part Four (1 lecture)

Multicast networking - Multicast group address - Multicast protocol - Internet Multicast Backbone - Using Class MulticastSocket - Programming multicast - Testing multicast programs - Things to be done with multicast

Network Programming in Java - Part Five (1 lecture)

Introduction to Java URL Framework - Java URL-related classes and interfaces - Interactions in the URL framework - Using the URL class - Using the URLConnection class

Network Programming in C and UNIX - Part One (1 lecture)

This lecture explains the concept of socket programming, and outlines the structure of a socket address and some system calls for socket programming. It also shows some example programs that implements the socket programming using C programming language for TCP and UDP communication.

Network Programming in C and UNIX - Part Two (1 lecture)

In this lecture, you learn the concepts underlying a remote procedure call (RPC), which is a popular model for client-server communication. We also provide a programming example to show how it works.

HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol) (1 lecture)

What is HTTP? - Structure of HTTP Transactions - What are HTTP Headers? - HTTP Request Structure - HTTP Request Method: GET - HTTP Request Method: POST - HTTP Response Structure - HTTP Status Codes - HTTP Headers in HTTP Requests - HTTP Headers in HTTP Responses

XML Basics and Overview (1 lecture)

What is XML? - Well-formed XML document - Valid XML document - XML DTD and XML Schema

Web Services (2 lectures)

What is a Web Service? - Desirable Properties of a Web Service - Web Service Protocol Stack - SOAP - WSDL - UDDI - Introduction to SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) - Three Realizations of Web Services - REST Web Services - XML-RPC - Web Services in Action

Case Study: Amazon Web Services (1 lecture)

Introduction to Amazon S3 - Basics, Key Features, and Security of Amazon S3 - Developing and Demonstrating S3 Applications - Introduction to Amazon EC2 - Benefit of Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 Concepts - Getting Started: A Brief Overview

Network Filesystems (1 lecture)

Introduction to NFS (Network File System) - NFS Architecture - NFS Protocol - NFS Implementation - Starting up NFS - Exporting File System - NFS Transport protocol - Introduction to SMB/CIFS - What is Samba? - SMB Protocol - What is the difference between NFS and CIFS?

Small Network Design (1 lecture)

Network Devices - Examples of home network design - Wired vs. Wireless - Router Configuration - WAN Settings - LAN Settings - Wireless LAN Settings - Network settings

Security in Networks (1 lecture)

Security goals - Network Segmentation - Firewalls - Proxy Servers - Intrusion detection systems (IDS) - Virtual Private Network (VPN) - Network Security Protocols

Domain Name System (1 lecture)

Introduction - Name Space - Domain Name Space - DNS in the Internet - Resolution - Implementation of DNS in the Internet - A DNS Lookup Example

Cryptography (1 lecture)

Encryption Basics - Symmetric Encryption - Asymmetric Encryption - The RSA Algorithm - Digital Signature - Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - SSL (Secure Socket Layer) - SSH (Secure Shell) - IPSec (Internet Protocol Security)

Course Revision (3 lectures)

Network Programming - Lecture Overview