Welcome to the Internet Client-Server Systems course, ITEC-4020 for Winter term 2023. Materials, instructions, and notices for the course will accumulate here over the semester.

This course introduces basic and advanced concepts of internet client-server systems. It covers both programming aspects of internet applications and advanced topics of Web technology, such as some topics on introduction to information retrieval, Web search and Web mining.

The major objective of this course is for the students to learn how to analyse, design and implement internet applications and obtain a solid grasp of how techniques in Web technology can be applied to solve problems.

This course will cover the following topics:

• Introduction to client-server systems, WWW and Web technology
• HTML, XHTML and XML
• Servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP)
• JDBC and Java Script
• E-business and E-commerce
• Internet Secruity
• Introduction to Web mining, Web server logs and Web session
• Introduction to Information Retrieval (indexing, search and ranking)
• Web search