Part of Prentice Hall's ESource Series. A brief module which covers Internet basics for engineering and computer science students. This text covers topics such as sending email, mailing lists, ftp, HTML, Java, IRC, and TCP/IP. James anticipates the interests of the more sophisticated engineering/cs student, and delivers a book that will open a student to all the aspects of the internet.

From the Back Cover

Esource―Prentice Hall's Engineering Source―provides a complete, flexible introductory engineering and computing program. Featuring over 15 modules and growing, ESource allows engineers to fully customize their books through the ESource website. They are not only able to pick and choose modules, but also sections of modules, incorporate their own materials, and re-paginate and re-index the complete project.

http://www.prenhall.com/esource

Features

Introduces all of the commonly used components that make up the Internet. This is done with a focus on using the Internet as a workbench with many tools that must be kept organized to be used efficiently.
Introduces basics of Web page making
Introduces the basics of Java programming
Introduces information on using the Internet securely

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