| Catalog description: | Introduction to local, metropolitan, and wide area networks.
Introduction to the Internet protocol suite and to network tools
and programming. Discussion of various networking technologies. More... |
| URL: | http://blackboard.unh.edu/ Enrolled students only, password required. Limited guest access is available by clicking the Preview button on the login page. The course website is available only when the course is in session. |
| Credits: | 4/3 |
| Section: | 01 |
| CRN: | 30124/30125 |
| Semester: | Summer 2009 |
| Dates/Time: | Tuesday, May 26 - Thursday, June 18, 2009 (note that UNH Summer Session catalog incorrectly lists the class as starting on Memorial Day, May 25), the course will meet MTWTh 6:10-9:00 pm in Kingsbury Hall, Rm. TBD. There will be a take-home exam, due Monday, June 22, so students should not make plans for the days that immediately follow the last class. Electronic submission of the final exam is possible. |
| Instructor: | Radim Bartos Office: Kingsbury N215B, rbartos AT cs.unh.edu, http://www.cs.unh.edu/~rbartos Phone: (603) 862-3792, Fax (603) 862-3493 Office hours (when the course is in session): MTWTh 5:30-6:10 pm and by appointment |
| Prerequisite: | CS620 Operating System Fundamentals or equivalent experience |
| Teaching method: | Lectures, homework projects, programming assignments, hands-on labs. |
| Assignments: | Problems from the textbook and programming projects. Assignments are due at the beginning of a class. There will be 20% penalty for late submission (up to a week, parts of a week count as a full week). Electronic submissions in proprietary file formats, such as MS Word, will not be accepted. For more on this subject see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html. |
| Exams: | In-class, open-book, one-hour weekly exams (Mondays, June 1, 8, and 15). Take-home final assigned June 16, due Monday, June 22 at 4:30 pm. |
| Grading: | 40% assignments, 30% weekly exams, 30% final exam. Grading scale: 95% and above: A, 90% and above: A-, 87% and above: B+, 83% and above: B, 80% and above: B-, 77% and above: C+, 73% and above: C, 70% and above: C-, etc. Students with a documented disability must register with the UNH Disability Services. More... |
| Text: | James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, Fifth Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2010, ISBN 0-136-07967-9 (the fourth edition of the text, ISBN 0-321-49770-8, is also acceptable). |