Syllabus

Homework/Labs

There are eight homeworks. Some of these homeworks require visiting an ITS Computer Lab to run software. (These I call "labs".) See the Labs page.

Mechanics

Class Evaluation

I do not grade on a curve. It's okay to study in a group. The scoring breaks down as follows:

Collaboration

You may collaborate on homeworks/labs, but you must turn in your own copy of the assignment. Realize that assignments prepare you for the corresponding quizzes, and so allowing time to work through the exercises on your own is better than copying someone else's results.

You may not collaborate on quizzes or on the final exam. Quizzes and the final exam must represent your own work. Understand that there is more than one version of the quiz, so avoid the tempation to copy a familiar looking answer from your neighbor. It might be the correct answer to your neighbor's quiz, but the TAs will discover what you've done.

Cheating

I hate to talk about cheating, because I like to assume there will be none, but the School of Engineering says I must: If a TA finds or I find conclusive evidence that you have cheated on a quiz or exam, you will fail that quiz or exam. It will not be possible to pass this course with a grade of 0 on the final exam. You should know that if you have been officially charged with cheating, and the provost has ruled that you have cheated, you get a black mark on your record: this could lead to either suspension or expulsion from this university (and you may be ejected from any SOE major, which may not affect you).

To receive credit for a weekly quiz, you must sit in one of the installed seats of the lecture hall, and you must put the names of your right and left neighbor on the top of your quiz page (put something like "end of row" if there is no one on one side). After you turn in your test, you must leave the lecture hall immediately, and if you have forgotten your backpack or other materials, you may not retrieve them until class time is over. You may not talk to anyone during the test time but the instructor or one of the TAs. Violations of this rule will result in a quiz score of zero on the part of the person doing the talking.

Communication

Please feel free to tell either the professor or the TAs about any comments or suggestions you might have about how to improve the class. The best way to do this is by electronic mail, though please include "CMPE80N" in the subject line of any emails you send to us, and also send email to just *one* of us at a time unless we specifically tell you otherwise. You may also broadcast your opinions by using the webforum.

References

• The Internet Book, by Douglas E. Comer, Fourth Edition Prentice Hall
• (Deeper, wider coverage) Data and Computer Communications, by William Stallings, th Edition Prentice Hall
• How The Internet Works, by Preston Gralla, Seventh Edition QUE
• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, by Larry L. Peterson & Bruce S. Davie, 3rd Edition Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
• Computer Networks, by Andrew Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, Third Edition.
• Communication Networks: A First Course, by Jean Walrand, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill 1998.
• An Engineering Approach to Computer Networks, by S. Keshav, 3rd Ed., Addison-Wesley 1998.
• Power Programming with RPC, by John Bloomer, O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.
• Data Networks, by Bertsekas and Gallager, Prentice Hall. (Queueing Theory, MAC Protocols)
• Data and Computer Communications, by Stallings, Macmillian. (Encoding/Decoding)
• The Pocket Guide to TCP/IP Sockets: C Version, by M. Donahoo and K. Calvert, Morgan Kaufman Publishers. (Socket Programming)
• Unix Network Programming, by R. Stevens, Prentice Hall. (Socket Programming)