Policies

Class Requirements & Grading:

• Quizzes and final exam: 65%
  
• Other: 10%
  
• Laboratory: 25%
  

About Active Learning

A certain amount of active learning will be included in the class. This could come in a variety of forms, but will generally mean that the lecture time will be partially consumed with individual or group assignments regarding topics of interest.

Part of the active learning scenario will be that assignments that are completed and submitted for grading and quizzes will be a signficant part of the final grade. Class attendance and participation will be important.

Quizzes and Daily Assignments:

Quizzes will dominate the grades in the course. They will be given on Wednesdays to minimize the conflicts with interview trips. No makeup will be given for missed quizzes, but two quizzes will be dropped at the end of the semester.

Some assignments may be made which will be due at class time on the due date. Late assignments will not be accepted unless you have an excused absence.

Grades will be posted electronically on a weekly basis (more or less) using your student id number as the key. If you don't want your grades posted, notify me. If you want me to use some other key, send it to me electronically.

The laboratory represents 25% of the credit for the course. In the labs you will be exposed to a variety of network properties that are of interest to computer scientists, including writing network programs, operating system configuration and network organization. The laboratories will be primarily concerned with writing programs that utilize network support features of the operating system, specifically Unix/Linux.

More information can be found on the Laboratory Page.

Everyone is expected to work on the programming assignments independently and no credit will be given for team efforts. That also means that glaring similarities between two programs will be treated as a violation of the University Conduct Policy.

In an effort to insure sufficient Linix/Unix and C experience for graduating seniors, all assignments must be done using the C (or C++) programming language and using the Linux operating system. The exception will be the final programming project, which can be done in any language you choose.

There will be a final exam over the laboratory material during the last laboratory period of the semester.

The final exam will be given during the time specified in the Semester schedule. No finals will be given early. That time is 6-7:50 PM on Thursday, December 16.