CSC 5215 Networks and Distributed Systems
Dr. J. Hodgson
Tuesday and Thursday 7:25 - 8:40pm
Book
Computer Networks Third Edition
Anrew S. Tanenbaum Prentice-Hall 1996
I will provide supplementary material (particularly on the programing) in the web pages. The home page for this course is "http://www.sju.edu/~jhodgson/netw/nethome.html".
Course Outline
The course will cover the whole of the book with emphasis on chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7.
The course begins with a review of the Open Systems Interconnect model of networks.
Assignments and evaluation
Grades in the course will be based upon a midterm (20%), a final (30%) and five homework assignments each worth 10% of the total grade. Some (but not all) of these assignments will require you to write programs. Final grades will be based upon the following:
A 94 -100
A- 90- 93
B+ 85-89
B 75-84
C 74 or less
Please note that there is no grade of B-.
The Honor Code
Students are reminded that Saint Joseph's has an honor code, which can be found in the catalog.
You may collaborate with other students on your homework, however any such
collaboration MUST be acknowledged. Failure to do so is a violation of the honor code and will result in a zero for the assignment. When acknowledging aid from someone you should include a sentence of the following form at the beginning of your assignment.
Help on this assignment equivalent to 15% of the effort was received from Lin Doe.
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Last Changed: 18 December 1996