Reachability: Certain announcements and individual messages may be sent to you via email. You are expected to receive them; make sure I have your preferred email address.
Course synopsis: We will study how a computer network is put together, from lowest to highest levels. We will focus on the TCP/IP protocols, with which the worldwide Internet has been constructed. The Internet, and its uses, will be one of our topics for study.
Homework: There may be several written homework assignments. There will also be a programming project, although the exact details have not yet been worked out.
Office Hours: To be announced. If I'm not in my office, look for me in the computer labs, DH340-342 (especially Wednesdays). My office is DH316; telephone 312-508-3576. You may send email to pld@math.luc.edu; I try to reply to emailed questions quickly.
Grades: Your grade will be based approximately on the following: written homework (10-20%), programs (25-30%), midterm and final exams (the rest). he midterm is not yet scheduled; it will probably be Monday, March 20. The final exam is scheduled for Friday, May 5, 8:00 am (gulp!) I will be reasonably flexible about giving incompletes to allow you to finish projects, but in general you will not be allowed to use incompletes to increase your grade.
Academic Honesty: Your work on exams is expected to be entirely
your own; failure to adhere to this may result in an F for the course.
As for written homework assignments, talking to others about confusing
points is permitted and, to some extent, encouraged. However, it is expected
that all actual solution writing, program typing, and program design be
done by yourself. In particular, the sharing of your program source files
is never acceptable. Inappropriate collaboration may result in your receiving
a zero for the homework or programming portions of the course.
Finally, it is expected that you will be responsible in your use of
network facilities; in particular that you will make reasonable efforts
to avoid overloading the network and that you will make no attempts to
interfere with or intercept any other traffic. Failure to comply with such
rules may result in administrative sanctions; this applies to anyone at
any time. For the duration of this course such violations may affect your
grade as well.