COMP 361 ndash; “Networks I” Spring 2005last revised 140205.ppt

COMP 361 – “Networks I” Spring 2005last revised 14/02/05 Instructor: Mordecai Golin www.cs.ust.hk/~golin http://course.cs.ust.hk/comp361/spr2005_L1/ (or via instructor’s web site) contains all notes, announcements, etc. Check it regularly! Class meets Tuesday/Thursday 12:00-13:20, LTD Labs: Wed 14-14:50, 15-15:50 in Rm 4214 No Labs Feb 2 Textbook: James Kurose and Keith Ross Computer Networks: A Top Down Approach Featuring The Internet, 3rd ed., Addison Wesley, 2005 Course material is based on lecture notes and chapters in the textbook. You are responsible to read the corresponding book chapters. There is one project (to be announced in March. Will take one month) Labs are actually tutorials to review material and time to work on project. You will be given homework questions to practice on but they will not be marked Class Grading Scheme: Important Small assignments 2 points Although Midterm Examination 33 points COMP 361 L1 COMP361 L2 Final Examination 45 points share 90% of the same material Course Project? 20 points their exams will be different, based on material taught in the individual classes Other Stuff You must have a CS department UG UNIX account (not a windows account) in order to work on the project. The project will have to be written in Java. Please see the notes section of the web site http://course.cs.ust.hk/comp361/spr2005_L1/html/spr05sch.html under Lab notes (week 1) for a tutorial (re)introduction to Java. The textbook has a an accompanying web site /aw_kurose_network_3/ with useful resource material, e.g., illustrative applets. Pro