CSC 240 Intro. to Networking & Communications

Syllabus: Computer Networking and Communication

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.

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. 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.

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 Socket and Example	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

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