This is the basis of much of what we will be doing
Definitions (from The Internet Book by Douglas Comer)
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client-server computing is the interaction between
two programs when they communicate across a network
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a program at one site sends a request to a
program at another site and awaits a response
- the requesting program is the client
- assuming we are using our laptops as a client, we might want to know how laptops work
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a program at one site sends a request to a
program at another site and awaits a response
- the program satisfying the request is the
server
- assuming we want to retrieve something from a server over the web, we might want to know how web servers work
client-server interaction
is the basis of distributed computing
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baseline understandings about the tools we will be using
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How PCs work
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advice on how to deal with problems as they come up
- The Weekly Fab 5 by Patrick Crispen, TOURBUS
- Basic Computer Security from ITS
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terminology
- is memory the same thing as storage? [notice how dated the details are in this storage article]
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what are
operating systems?
- we are familiar with Windows and Apple on our clients, but Linux and Android are starting to become challengers and Google is entering the market as well
- what are some of the others? Wikipedia lists lots and lots
- what does open source mean?
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email & file transfer
- Secure Shell Client is recommended for use with SILS servers
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