CNIT-131
Internet Basics and Beginning HTML

Welcome to the page of CNIT-131 Class!

You will find here the basic information about this class.

During Spring/2010, I will be teaching this class on Mondays (at the Mission Campus) and on Tuesdays & Thursdays (at the Ocean Campus)

Every City College student receives an email account with the following format username@mail.ccsf.edu. You can find your email account in the Admissions and Records website (WebStar) that you use to enroll/drop classes - once you login in WebStar, simply go to Personal Information where you will find the link called Google Student Email. Click on this link and you will have all the information you need to access your Google Student email (email address, username and password). You can then login using your information at Google Student Email - Login Page. If you want to continue to use your usual email (Ex. Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL etc.), you should login in your Google Student Email at least one time to enter the Settings folder and set the Forwarding in order to have this new City College email account forward all the messages to your preferred email, otherwise, you will risk not receiving emails from the college! The email is the most important form of communication between the students and the instructors. I use emails a lot to communicate with students and I encourage all my students to communicate with me via email!

Then, you will use your student ID and an initial password to access http://insight.ccsf.edu (the Insigth or Moodle) which is the online Learning Environmnent used by City College. On this website, you will find more details about this course including the schedule (on a weekly basis) and access to the activities we will be doing.

You will also be using the Hills server to upload your assignments. More instructions on how to access the Hills Server will be given on the first day of class.

Course Description:

Lec-3, lab-3 - P/NP available
Repeat: max. 9 units
Methods of using the Internet. History, design and protocol methods used on Internet including: electronic mail, mailing lists, Usenet, connection to remote computers, file transfer, World Wide Web, basic web page creation and publishing. Additional topics include: file compression and expansion, computer security, copyright and electronic commerce, and basic Unix shell commands. CSU
Formerly CNIT 135A or CIS 135A.

Material Used:

  • Highly recommended a flashdrive (thumdrive) - if you want to take notes and/or save work done in class
  • FTP Software - There are different free client FTP software that you can download and install such as SmartFTP, WS FTP etc. You will also be able to transfer your files to the Hills server using your browser.
  • You need to have a web browser installed, it will be better, for testing your pages, to have 2 different browsers, preferably IE (Internet Explorer) and Firefox.
  • Book: ISBN = 978-1-4239-2506-4 - New Perspectives - The Internet, 7th Edition Comprehensive - Authors: Gary P. Schneider and Jessica Evans - THIS IS A MUST HAVE