Computer Science 1033A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Transparency And Translucency, Technical Support, Tooltip

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1033A/B
• Professor: Laura Reid

Document Summary

Lecture 1: course outline and intro no need to study. Advantages, disadvantages: downloadable vs. streamed audio, embedding sound into a web page 2 ways. Materials that the prof said would be on the exam are noted with on exam . Describes any application or technology that can be used to present: text, images, sound, video, animation. Multimedia uses: to inform, to educate, to sell and run businesses, to entertain. The world wide web offers: accessibility: reaches people all over the world, is fast, directly see people i. e. , webcam, skype, is cheap (sometimes free) 1969 network technology introduced: arpanet (advance research projects agency. Network: first packet switching network and the predecessor to the internet, requests are broken up into smaller packets and take different routes to get to the destination, packets = small units of data. 1991 world wide web debuts thanks to tim berners-lee (accessing info over the internet) not via webpages. 1992 html debuts and allows building webpages.