Knowledge Goals
- To understand the differing roles of applications and applets
- To understand how a browser operates
- To understand the role of HTML
Skill Goals
To be able to:- Write an applet to perform a simple task
- Embed Bytecode within a Web page
- Construct a simple HTML Web page that executes an applet
Applets
1995
E-commerce sites
Ebay and
Amazon.com open,
forecasting a
revolution in the
way goods are
bought and sold
1995
Microsoft releases
the Windows 95
operating system
and sells 600,000
units in the first
month1997
In a legendary
match, IBM’s Deep
Blue computer
defeats Garry
Kasparov, the world
champion chess
player1999
Membership to the
Internet Service
Provider AOL
exceeds 20 million,
signifying an
explosion of
personal computer
use for the Internet1999
Shawn Fanning,
while at
Northeastern
University, founds
Napster. The easy
trading of music in
MP3 format raises
copyright issues2000
The Y2K crisis costs
millions to fix, yet
the new millennium
was ushered in with
few glitches