INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

COURSE OUTLINE

Kulliyyah Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology

Department Department of Information Systems

Programme Bachelor of Information Technology

Course Title Internet Applications

Course Code INFO 1301

Status Required

Level 1

Credit Hours 3

Contact Hours 3

Pre-requisites None
(if any)

Co-requisites None
(if any)

Instructional Lecture, Class Discussion, Tutorial/Lab Session and Demonstration

Strategies
Course LO Items %
Assessment 1,2,5,6 Quizzes 10 %
State weightage 2,5,6 Assignment 10 %
of each type of 3,4,5,6,7 Group Project 20 %
assessment. 3,5 Lab Test 20 %
2,3,6 Final Exam 40 %
TOTAL 100 %
Instructor(s) Nina Kamarina Kamaruddin
Muhamad Sadry Abu Seman

Semester Semester 1,2,3

Offered
Course Synopsis This course aims at developing necessary and critical skills for students to
effectively use the Internet. The class begins with the overview of Internet
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 and its history, then focuses on the specific Internet application as well as
the World Wide Web (WWW) such as electronic mail (e-mail), File
Transfer Protocol (FTP), NetMeeting, Newsgroups, ListServ, search
engines, Networking etc. The course will cover the recent technology of
Internet mainly in designing the homepage/web page. For this purpose,
students will be exposed with Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML) and
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). Student will further expose to the advanced
web technology such as DHTML, XML and XHTML.

Course The objectives of this course are to:

Objectives 1. provide a brief overview of the history of the internet.
2. expose student to the necessary skills to use the internet
3. expose students to the necessary skills to develop and create
website.
Learning Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
Outcomes 1. describe internet and its history.
2. describe the importance of http protocols in web
applications.
3. demonstrate understanding on html and basic xml syntax.
4. apply and integrate html syntax to create web documents.
5. contrast and explain the issues involved in designing web
applications / web interfaces.
6. identify the various searching, emailing, surfing techniques
in using internet.
7. create a basic website based on good screen design
principles.
Content Outlines
Weeks Topics Task/Reading Note
1 Understanding the internet Chapter 1
2 Surfing and Searching the Internet Chapter 2
3 Creating Web Pages Chapter 5
4 C1: HTML – Basic, Text formatting Chapter 6
5 C2: HTML - Adding Image and Background, Image Map, Chapter 6, 7
Linking
6 C3: HTML - Table Chapter 6
7 C4: HTML - Forms Chapter 7, 9, 12
8 C5: HTML - Frame Chapter 5, 7
9 C6: Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Chapter 8, 9
10 Communicating Over The Internet Chapter 3
11 Commercializing The Internet Chapter 4
12 C7: Javascript Chapter 8
13 C8: HTML - Embed Multimedia & Java Applet Chapter 2, 8
14 C9: Basic XML Concept Chapter 8

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References Required
i. Hofstetter, T. Fred, (2005) Internet technologies at work, Illinois:
McGraw-Hill.

Recommended
i. Greenlaw, R. & Hepp, E., (2002) In-line/on-line fundamentals of
the internet and the world wide web, New York: McGraw-Hill.

ii. D’Souza, D’Souza, (2001) Web publishing, New Delhi: Tata

McGraw Hill.

iii. Evans, Martin, Poatsy, (2007) Technology in action (3rd ed.), New
Jersey: Prentice Hall.

iv. Hofstetter, (2006) Internet literacy, New York: McGraw-Hill.