Week 8: How the Web Works

Week	Topic	Learning Objectives	Key Resources
8	How the Web Works	Students will be able to explain what a browser, URL, domain, and IP address are; describe the difference between HTTP and HTTPS.	Week 8 Slides

Overview

After this week, students should be able to:

• Describe what the internet is.
• Describe what packets are and how they are used to transfer data.
• Understand the differences between a web page, web server, web browser and search engine.
• Briefly explain what a client is.
• Briefly explain what a server is.
• Explain what IP addresses are.
• Explain what DNS servers are.

Outline:

• The history of the internet
• How the world wide web works
  • Differences between a web page, web server, and web browser
  • Overview of web browsers
• DNS requests

Guidance for Mentors

This week is light on content because students are still practicing Git in the assignment. Make sure students feel confident with the GitHub workflow as the week wraps up - all of their future assignments will be submitted via GitHub.

Assignment Rubric

Students will get started on their personal portfolio this week! Their assignment submission should contain:

• Student's name
• About header
• A paragraph about the student
• Experience header
• List of experiences
• Connect header
• At least three links under the index.html file.

HTML code is optional this week - students will dive into HTML more next week.

Here's an example of a student submission:

<h1>NAME</h1>
<h2>ABOUT</h2>
<p>PARAGRAPH</p>
<h2>EXPERIENCE</h2>
<ul>
    <li>ONE</li>
    <li>TWO</li>
    <li>THREE</li>
</ul>
<h2>CONNECT</h2>
<a LINK ONE</a>
<a LINK TWO</a>
<a LINK THREE</a>