Course title: Communication technology fundamentals

Instructor: Associate professor Radovan Vrana, PhD

ECTS credits: 5

Language: Croatian

Semester: 2nd

Status: Compulsory

Form of Instruction: Lectures and exercises

Prerequisites: none

Examination: Written

Objective: Introduction to communication technologies.

Course description:

• Computer networks (basic concepts), Introduction to the internet
• Using the internet, Internet service providers
• Computer addressing on the internet, The internet domains
• Basic internet protocols
• E-mail
• World Wide Web
• Search engines
• Internet information resources: Web directories, Web portals, Encyclopedias)
• Communication services on the internet, Social software
• File transfer on the internet, Multimedia
• User security on the internet
• Invisible Web
• Practical work: development of Web pages by use of HTML

Reading list:

1. Gralla, Preston. How the Internet works. Indianapolis: QUE, 2007.
2. Duckett, Jon. HTML & CSS: Design and Build Web Sites. Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
3. Miller, Joseph B. Internet technologies and information services. Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2009.
4. Gralla, Preston. Kako funkcionira Internet. Zagreb : Algoritam, 2004.

Recommende reading:

1. Castro, Elizabeth. HTML, XHTML and CSS : Visual quickstart guide. Berkeley : Peachpit Press, 2007.
2. Buigues-García, Mar; Giménez-Chornet, Vicent. Impact of Web 2.0 on national libraries. // International Journal of Information Management 32(2012), 3–10.
3. Wright, Alex. Searching the Deep Web. // Communications of the ACM. 51, 10(2008), 14-15.
4. HTML 4 & 5 tutorial. URL: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp. (20.2.2014.)
5. HTML 5 tutorial URL: http://www.html5-tutorials.org/ (20.2.2014.)
6. Sherman, C.; Price, G. The invisible Web: uncovering information sources search engines can't see. Medford; New Jersey: Information today, 2001. str. 55-74, 127-133.