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For the last 8 years I have been lecturing to community college students at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College. Although my area of expertise is databases and web design, I also lecture in the areas of computer networking and Java programming.

This area of my website is dedicated to my students. From here they can view and print handouts from classes that they may have missed or lost the handouts to. There is also an area where I publish papers that I write from time on issues pertinent to the field and of use to students.

 

Network Connectivity Devices

Network  connectivity devices are devices that are used to connect computing devices to  a network, or connect them so that they form a network. Computing devices range  from Servers, to PCs to printers and scanners, and the network connectivity  devices range from NICs to hubs, switches and routers.

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The Purpose and Roles of Clients and Servers

As we have discussed previously a client is a computer that allows a user or users to log on to the network and take advantage of the resources available on the network, whereas a server is a much more powerful computer that administers the network and its resources (Habraken, page 15). From this we can deduce that the role of the server is resource administration and management, whereas the role of the client is resource utilisation.

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Handout 4 - Images and Graphics

Almost all web pages incorporate some sort of graphics in them. The format this graphic takes varies widely: logos, pictures, bullets, background images. Well used and well placed graphics can greatly enhance a web page's appeal.

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