Conclusion

To conclude, the web provides a mechanism to access documents electronically. The web is essentially platform-independent, and geographically separated documents can be hyperlinked.

Documents can include text, embedded graphics and sounds. External `viewers' permit extensible web documents with animation etc.

Web documents can be created by hand, or by available tools. Many existing documents can be converted to web format.

The web seems a good tool to aid in teaching. Some types of documents that it can provide are:

Lecture notes, and other lecture/lab/tutorial material.
Information about units, courses, departments, lecturers.
Electronic technical reports, papers, journals and abstracts.
Libraries of related information from the Internet.
Active documents that permit searching for information.
Special uses, such as my hyperlinked BSD source tree.

Warren Toomey wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au, April 1994