Course Outline

Preliminary Material

General Computing Background & Applications

  • File and Data Management
  • Word and Text Processing
  • Text File Formats (ascii, postscript, eps, rtf, HTML)
  • Graphic File Formats (postscript, eps, jpeg, tiff, gif, IBM Mac & other formats)
  • Underpinnings
  • Intro to Hypermedia/Multimedia
  • (Adobe Acrobat)
  • Digital Sound (recording, sampling rates, formats, storage)
  • Digital Video (playback, formats: mpeg, quicktime, vfw)
  • Compression Formats & Utilities

    • Networking

  • Introduction to Networks
  • Web Browsers
  • Authoring Web Pages
  • Telnet Acess
  • Electronic Mail
  • File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
  • Archie,
  • Gopher: Veronica,
  • WAIS
  • Web Searching
  • Network News (USENET news readers)
  • Listservs
  • Commercial and Other Networks
  • Compuserve, Genie, America On-line, Prodigy
  • Bitnet, UUnet
  • Net User Location Tools
  • Synchronous Communications

    • Digital Libraries

  • VT Libraries Virtual Tour
  • VT Library
  • OPACs (On-line Public Access Catalogs) and Electronic Journals and Elec. Books
    • Author: N. Dwight Barnette
    Curator: Computer Science Dept : VA TECH © Copyright 1994-1999.
    Last Updated: 5/17/99