Underlying Objectives of this course

On the completion of this course, you should be able to tackle the following issues:

• How the internet works, and its various components
• The different internet tools available for a user and a developer
• The underlying mechanisms used by computers connected via networks in general
• The issues involved in designing a distributed system
• Competing and complementary technologies that play a part in developing a distributed system
• Analogies!! - analogies and lots of analogies