Time: MWF
2:30 – 3:30 PM
Instructor: Noel
J Petit Office: Sverdrup
203D Phone (Office) 612-330-1061
E-mail: petit@augsburg.edu
Text: Computer Networks and
Internets, Douglas E. Comer, Prentice-Hall, 4th Edition, 2004
This course will study topics in computer networking and
communication. The course will be made of three components:
1) On-line instruction and quizzes
2) Demonstration Sessions
3) Weekly help sessions
On-Line Instruction/Quizzes
The course will run using an on-line tool called Moodle.
(augnet.augsburg.edu -- click on Courses/Moodle in the yellow box).
You will need access to AugNet for this course and should contact the IT
department at Augsburg if you do not have a login and password for AugNet (this
is the same login and password used for "augsburg.edu" web-mail). If
you have another e-mail account you will still need to get an Augsburg login
from IT in one of the following ways;
http://www.augsburg.edu/stucomp/
email:stucomp@augsburg.edu
phone: 612-330-1400
visit: Student Computing Desk on the second floor (link level) of the library.
The text has 41 chapters. We will take them in order and roughly about 3
chapters per week. I will post a quiz for each chapter. Sometimes the quiz
will require you to search the Internet or use some internet tool. You will
have to spend about 2-3 hours per chapter on the internet reading, researching
and taking the quiz.
Grading will be based on your total quiz grades. Quiz questions will be
available in Moodle before you take the quiz. You can research the questions
ahead of time as you get only one chance to take the quiz. Quizzes will be
available for two weeks. You will have to keep up with the quizzes as they will
be taken off Moodle approximately one week after we discuss the chapter. The
Final is a comprehensive on-line 20 question quiz (using the same format as the
chapter quizzes).
Demonstration Sessions - SEE MOODLE CALENDAR FOR
CLASS SCHEDULE
Help Sessions - in Sverdrup 203.
These will be open sessions for you to ask questions and work on problems you
may have. I can arrange other help and question sessions if you cannot attend
the regular help sessions. During these sessions, I will be on MSN Instant Messenger for on-line
questions. I will check e-mail daily at about 7 AM and 7 PM if you have
questions.
Below I have listed the chapters and the weeks that they will be
covered. Exact quiz dates will be posted on the Moodle calendar. See the
class calendar in Moodle.
|
Week |
Topic |
Chapters |
|
1 |
Introduction and Data Transmission |
1,2,4-6 |
|
2 |
Packet Transmission and Network Hardware |
7-13 |
|
3 |
ATM, Networks and Protocols |
14-16 |
|
4 |
Internetworking Concepts and Addresses |
17-18 |
|
5 |
ARP and IP Datagrams |
19-20 |
|
6 |
Internet Protocol, IPv6 and ICMP |
20-23 |
|
7 |
Transport Protocols |
24-25 |
|
8 |
NAT and Internet Routing |
26-27 |
|
9 |
Client Server |
28-30 |
|
10 |
Domain Name Service and Electronic Mail |
31-32 |
|
11 |
IP Phones and File Transfer Protocol |
33-34 |
|
12 |
Web Pages and Java |
35-37 |
|
13 |
RPC, Network Management and Security |
38-41 |
|
14 |
Summary |
|