CS Unplugged: Field guide: Network Communication Protocols
An online resource for teaching Computer Science to students, this chapter focusses on Network Communication Protocols. This chapter introduces some concepts, algorithms, techniques, applications and problems that relate to network protocols.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 7-8, 9-10 |
|---|---|
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Digital systems |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI8K01
Explain how hardware specifications affect performance and select appropriate hardware for particular tasks and workloads
AC9TDI8K02
Investigate how data is transmitted and secured in wired and wireless networks including the internet
AC9TDI10K01
Investigate how hardware and software manage, control and secure access to data in networked digital systems
AC9TDI10K02
Represent documents online as content (text), structure (markup) and presentation (styling) and explain why such representations are important |
| Keywords | Networks, Protocols, HTTP, TCP, Internet Relay Chat, IRC, UDP, Transmission Control Protocol, User Datagram Protocol |
| Organisation | University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
| Copyright | University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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