The Internet — a first year course option for an engineering common programme
For new users of the Internet there is a need for a coherent presentation of its facilities. A first year option for all engineering students at Sheffield Hallam University is ‘Navigating the Information Super Highway’ which achieves this. The paper outlines the rationale of this course, describes the topics covered, course structure and student response to it.
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References
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This list represents useful sites and facilities that have been used in the delivery of this course.
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Listservers: For a good selection send ‘help’ to LISTSERV@UCSD. EDU.
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FTP sites: For a large selection of public domain and shareware ftp to MICROS. HENSA.AC.UK.
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Gopher: For a command line version Telnet to GOPHER. SUNET.SE. For a more user friendly version use a local gopher client.
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Archie: For a reasonable response time try ARCHIE. HENSA.AC. UK or ARCHIE.AC.IL.
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Jughead and Veronica are available on some gopher servers. Try gopher.ic.ac. uk World Wide Web Pages:
