Your Teaching Staff

Instructor: James Mathewson

Office Hour: Thursday 2:30-3:30 pm, APPT

Location: E2 Room 231

 

Teaching Assistants (Sections Are Tentative And Not Required)

Viet Trinh (vqtrinh@ucsc.edu), Jordan Liss (jliss@ucsc.edu)

Sections:

MON   09:30 - 10:40AM, E2- 194

TUES  02:30 - 03:10pm, Merrill 130

WED,  12:30PM-01:40PM, E2-194

THURS 08:30-09:40AM, Porter Acad 148

FRI, Cancelled

 

TA Office hour: By appointment

 

       

 

Each TA is willing to meet with you outside of section (within reason) by using email to arrange another time you can come in—either because you want some extra one-on-one help or because you just can't make the other times (so is the professor, although sometimes this means talking over the phone or skype).  

Please put 'CMPE 80N' in the email subject line, so we can filter it properly.

 

 TUTORS

Tutors are available.   Contact Nicholas Meddin, through HTTPS://EOP.SA.UCSC.EDU/OTSS/tutorsignup

 

 

Class Locations And Dates

Class code: 60905

Class time: T Th 4:00-5:45

Class location: Thim Lecture 003

Date and time of final exam:  Thursday, June 9, 8:00–11:00 a.m.  (Dont oversleep!)

Class Resources

  • Check your grades on this webpage
  • Our class text is The TCP/IP Guide by Charles M. Kozierok, Fifth Edition.
    • You can read this online for free.
    • You can buy it at amazon.com (but I wouldn't).
  • You might also consider several Networking Sections of Wikipedia as our class text.
  • We will use a few sections of Khan Academy
  • Several other sites of interest as we move through our time together

Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

 

 

What We Will Cover

We are going to talk about the Internet, how it works, a bit of its history, and its affects on our society. We will start by talking about the underpinnings of communication: information transfer. Then we will become a bit more abstract and talk about how local networks work, then we will talk more and more abstractly. Throughout our time together we will talk about our digital age and how it affects us: how to be good "netizens" and how to protect ourselves on the Web. You will be encouraged to contribute your own thoughts and opinions to our understanding.

 

Disability Resource Center Student Accomodations

I welcome DRC students. Make sure you talk to me at the beginning of the quarter about your needs. As a note, I far prefer your emailing me a PDF of your DRC form instead of giving me a piece of paper.

Syllabus

TopicsReading 
  • Class logistics.
  • Introduction to networking.
  • Decimal, binary, and hexadecimal numbers.
  • Boolean and logical operations.

Bonus

Lecture Slides: Overview.pdf          binary-stuff.pdf

 
  • Quantization, Sampling, and Digitizing
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  • Data Link Layer (Layer 2)

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  • More Data Link Layer (Layer 2)
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  • Internet Layer (Layer 3)
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  • More on IP
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  •  More on IP (Routing)
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  • Transport Layer (Layer 4)
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  • Network Security

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  • Caching and Network Law

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  •  Course Review
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Homework/Labs

There are eight homeworks. Some of these homeworks require visiting an ITS Computer Lab to run software. (These I call "labs".) See the Labs page.

lab picture 

 

Mechanics

Class Evaluation

I do not grade on a curve. It's okay to study in a group. The scoring breaks down as follows:

WeightDescription
30%

Weekly quizzes (your own work)

  • These will cover the material listed in the assignments section of this website.
  • I use the best 6 scores (out of 9 quizzes). There will be no makeup quizzes.
  • If this is a quarter in which you can't make it to class every Thursdays, this is not a good class for you.
20%

Homework/labs (collaboration is okay, but . . .)

  • Each of you must turn in your own assignment for grading.
50%

Final exam (your own work)

  • You will have assigned seats for the final exam.    If you do NOT pass the final, you will not pass the course.
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Class participation.

  • Evidence of class participation lets me bump somone's grade from C+ to B–, or from B+ to A–. Class participation includes section participation and helping others on the forum.   This is a big one, and may come from myself or the TA's (but it is rare).
  • Smaller points will be awarded for pointing out inconsistencies and incorrect answers.   If you are paying enough attention to see them, you will be rewarded.   In addition, if you submit a relevant link (e.g. how binary numbers work), and its worthy to be posted here, you will receive additional points.   The web is a big place, with lots of helpful links (help me find them!).   Typically, 3+ points towards your total grade.

Collaboration

You may collaborate on homeworks/labs, but you must turn in your own copy of the assignment. Realize that assignments prepare you for the corresponding quizzes, and so allowing time to work through the exercises on your own is better than copying someone else's results.

You may not collaborate on quizzes or on the final exam. Quizzes and the final exam must represent your own work. Understand that there is more than one version of the quiz, so avoid the tempation to copy a familiar looking answer from your neighbor. It might be the correct answer to your neighbor's quiz, but the TAs will discover what you've done.

Cheating

cheating

I hate to talk about cheating, because I like to assume there will be none, but the School of Engineering says I must: If a TA finds or I find conclusive evidence that you have cheated on a quiz or exam, you will fail that quiz or exam. It will not be possible to pass this course with a grade of 0 on the final exam. You should know that if you have been officially charged with cheating, and the provost has ruled that you have cheated, you get a black mark on your record: this could lead to either suspension or expulsion from this university (and you may be ejected from any SOE major, which may not affect you).

To receive credit for a weekly quiz, you must sit in one of the installed seats of the lecture hall, and you must put the names of your right and left neighbor on the top of your quiz page (put something like "end of row" if there is no one on one side). After you turn in your test, you must leave the lecture hall immediately, and if you have forgotten your backpack or other materials, you may not retrieve them until class time is over. You may not talk to anyone during the test time but the instructor or one of the TAs. Violations of this rule will result in a quiz score of zero on the part of the person doing the talking.

Communication

feedback

Please feel free to tell either the professor or the TAs about any comments or suggestions you might have about how to improve the class. The best way to do this is by electronic mail, though please include "CMPE80N" in the subject line of any emails you send to us, and also send email to just *one* of us at a time unless we specifically tell you otherwise. You may also broadcast your opinions by using the webforum.

Don't worry we don't do this!

References

  • The Internet Book, by Douglas E. Comer, Fourth Edition Prentice Hall
  • (Deeper, wider coverage) Data and Computer Communications, by William Stallings, th Edition Prentice Hall
  • How The Internet Works, by Preston Gralla, Seventh Edition QUE
  • Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, by Larry L. Peterson & Bruce S. Davie, 3rd Edition Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
  • Computer Networks, by Andrew Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, Third Edition.
  • Communication Networks: A First Course, by Jean Walrand, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill 1998.
  • An Engineering Approach to Computer Networks, by S. Keshav, 3rd Ed., Addison-Wesley 1998.
  • Power Programming with RPC, by John Bloomer, O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.
  • Data Networks, by Bertsekas and Gallager, Prentice Hall. (Queueing Theory, MAC Protocols)
  • Data and Computer Communications, by Stallings, Macmillian. (Encoding/Decoding)
  • The Pocket Guide to TCP/IP Sockets: C Version, by M. Donahoo and K. Calvert, Morgan Kaufman Publishers. (Socket Programming)
  • Unix Network Programming, by R. Stevens, Prentice Hall. (Socket Programming)

 

 

 

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