Students will acquire a basic understanding of the Internet and the World Wide Web and how it operates. Students will learn how to establish and maintain a Web site. The course provides students with an understanding of the technologies that support Web-based interactions and their impact on the World Wide Web. Focus is on the investigation of the most current technologies including HTML, XML, CGI programming, and Java Server Pages. The future direction of Web application will also be explored.
Emphasis is placed on hands-on application of the technologies both inside and outside of class.
Course will discuss how the technology works, what hardware and software is available, the physiological implications of using virtual reality and how it is used and will be used in the fields of architecture, entertainment, medicine, engineering, high-risk environment exploration and education. Course will also discuss basic web-based VRML and Java basics and involve a small projection ever incurring role in the entertainment industry, especially the cinema. Movies are considered a variety of virtual reality and a lot of VR technology used to create virtual worlds goes into contemporary motion picture production. Scenes are now completely fabricated in the computer, actors, actresses and props are digitally added and the viewer is left to wonder what is real and what is not. Telepresense, a close cousin technology of VR is also becoming more widely used.