Week 10

In this week, Miss Nisha lectured us and guided us to know about internet. She taught us about web, link, etc. This lesson is a bit long but it is very importance to us to know it because the internet is a Huge World Wide Web that can provide us all the information and events that happen all over the world. I want to brief it in very short but all the points are very importance. The lesson that she taught us in that week are: 

Develop simple web applications for managing information and other resources using available tools

Table of Contents:

-          Define web applications

-          Google Apps technologies

Web applications defined

A web application or Web Apps

-          An app is a piece of software. It can run on the Internet, on your computer, or on your phone or other electronic device.

*        Examples of Browsers

     - Internet Explorer

     - Mozilla Firefox

     - Mekhala Khmer (Cambodian web browser) 

Web Page

   -  Web document.

   -  HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)

There are two types of web pages:

1.      Static web page

2.      Dynamic web page

What is Static Web?

Static web is web 1.0 which considered as "read-only web." allows people to search for information and read it.

Example: Online official Information resources

What is Dynamic Web?

Dynamic web is web 2.0 which web interactions between people, software and    data and describes A.

Examples of Dynamic web: MySpace, Twitter, FriendFinder, Facebook, Classmates, flickr, etc.

This session I also learnt about web 2.0 Applications. Web 2.0 application such as Google docs, Gmail,etc.

CATEGORIES OF WEB 2.0 SITES

In order to make sure I would like to give the example of CATEGORIES OF WEB 2.0 SITES: SOCIAL NETWORKING such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc.

Another session to study in this week is Internet. What is internet? Who manage the internet? Actually internet has no formal management organization. People use internet in order to:

-          Find and access information

-          Send and receive the information

-          Participate in discussion in group

-          To learn, read news, get software, buy things and etc.

Services on the Internet

To use internet, we need to know the basics of them. What are the basics that we need to aware?

The basic of internet are:

•      World Wide Web

•      Home Page

•      Website

•      Web Page

•      Hypertext

•      Internet Protocol

•      Internet Service Provider

•      TCP

•      Web Browser

•      Web Server

•      URL

After we know the basic of internet, we need to know more about web. What is web? The World Wide Web also known as Web.

•      A collection of linked Web pages that has a common theme or focus is called a Web site.

•      The main page that all of the pages on a particular Web site are organized around and link back to is called the site’s home page.

The World Wide Web was created in 1989 at CERN (European Laboratory for Practical Physics).

I learnt more about:

-          Web Browsers

Web browser works by using a protocol called Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to request a specially encoded text document from server.

-          Web Server

Web servers are computers that deliver (serves up) Web pages. Every Web server has an IP address and possibly a domain name.

-          Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

To allow Web browser software to read them, the text must be formatted according to a standard. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page

-          Hypertext and Hyperlink

      Hypertext: It is method of presenting information which text or images contained on one document can be linked to another document.

      Hyperlink: It allow user to navigate from one web document to another.

-          Internet Protocol

Allow user to retrieve a wide variety of resources such as text, graphics, sound animation and other documents. Is a protocol used  to access data on web.

-          Internet Service Provider

A commercial organization that sells temporary connections to subscribers. Examples: telecommunication companies, Microsoft network, AT&T Networks etc.

-          Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

Describe the location and a method of accessing a resource on internet.

What is Google apps?

Applications and Infrastructure

     “A series of applications from Google”..

Google Apps Technology

*        Messaging

*         Calendaring

*         Documents

*         Video

*         Sites

*         Talk

*         Maps