Welcome to COMP3322. This course is designed to provide you key technologies of the Internet and the World Wide Web, as well as useful practice in developing web-based applications and systems. The course consists primarily of lectures and lab practice. Major topics to be covered include: Internet protocol stack, client-server model, TCP/IP, Internet applications, World Wide Web, HTTP, HTML, XML/JSON, style sheets, web programming (PHP, JavaScript, Node.js, etc.), web services and cloud computing.