CSCI 4273/5273 & ECEN 5023: Network Systems

Fall 2012

Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder

 

See the Moodle class Web page at http://moodle.cs.colorado.edu

Schedule & Location: Mon, Wed 4-5:15 pm, ECCS 1B28
Course number: CSCI 4273/5273, Call # depends on ugrad/grad.  And ECEN 5023.  See also the registrar's Web site.
Prerequisites: CSCI 3753 Operating Systems, and familiarity with C and UNIX.
Instructor: Professor Rick Han, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~rhan.
Office: ECCR 1B05F
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-4 pm and Wednesdays 1-2 pm in ECCR 1B09 (next door to my office).  Additional appointments as needed.
Email: rhan@cs.colorado.edu
Phone: 303-492-0914
Textbook: 

Other very useful references: 

Lab TA: Murad Kaplan
Lab TA Office/Hours:  To be determined, see moodle for announcements.
Lab TA Email: Murad.Kaplan@Colorado.EDU

Grader: Erik Kahn
Grader email: Erik.Kahn@Colorado.EDU

class Web site:
See the Moodle class Web page at http://moodle.cs.colorado.edu.  Assignments, lecture slides, and announcements can be found there.  The moodle has a variety of useful features, including a forum for posting questions.  Each student should establish an account on the moodle and then subscribe to our class on the moodle using the special enrollment key given out in class.

CSEL Accounts:
The Computer Science department maintains the Computer Science Educational Labs (CSEL) in the first floor of the ECCS Wing of the Engineering Center.  The CSEL consists of a cluster of primarily Linux machines.  It is a convenient facility for doing your programming assignments.  You may sign up for an account in the CSEL by going to the general CSEL Web site http://csel.cs.colorado.edu and following the instructions there to sign up for an account.  This will also give you Buff One card key access to the CSEL.

CAETE:
For CAETE distance learning students, the lectures will be videotaped and should be available through the CAETE website at http://cuengineeringonline.colorado.edu.

Grading

25% Final exam - Wednesday December 19, 7:30 am - 10 am
15% Midterm exam
45% Programming assignments
15% Problem sets

All programming assignments and problem sets are due by start of class on their respective due dates, unless otherwise noted.  Programming assignments and problem sets must be submitted by uploading them to the moodle class Web page (though problem sets may also be handed in in-class by the end of lecture), unless otherwise noted.    The late policy for programming assignments is as follows: maximum 90% of original points if submitted within 24 hours of the due date; no credit if submitted one day or more after the due date.  Late problem sets will not be accepted, unless otherwise noted by the instructor.   For both programs and problem sets, we highly encourage you to submit even partially finished work for partial credit.  Extensions will not be granted except at the instructor's discretion in documented cases of extreme hardship, unless otherwise noted.

Grading for graduate students in 5273 will be evaluated separately from grading for undergraduate students in 4273.  As the occasion warrants, certain assignments may have a higher degree of difficulty for graduate students.

All programming assignments must be written in C and compiled for execution on the Linux operating system in the CSEL Linux cluster, unless otherwise noted.  The TA will grade your programs on the CSEL Linux machines.  As part of the grading, we may establish grading sessions with the TA for each programming assignment, where you will need to answer questions from the TA about both the concepts behind the programming assignment as well as the code submitted itself, in addition to demonstrating your code.

All programming assignments and problem sets should be your original work, unless otherwise noted.  You may help others only to the extent of answering typical questions that arise during compiling, debugging, and executing your programming assignments.  The code that you write must be your own.

Plagiarism policy.



Additional Policies:

Disability Policy

Religious Observances Policy

Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policy

Classroom Behavior Policy