Introduction to the Internet (COMP 0834)

This course covers the basic skills necessary to effectively use the Internet as an information and communications tool. Students learn how to display, navigate and print web pages as well as how to find information on specific topics and assess the reliability of the information. They learn to save files, images, text and entire web pages to disk. Students create and use an email account for writing, replying to, forwarding and storing email messages. A zip utility is used to zip and unzip files for faster transferability across the Internet.