CSC 240  Intro. to Networking & Communications

Syllabus: Computer  Networking and Communication


Time:         Day School:    MWF  1210-1310
                 
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 four components:

1)   On-line instruction and quizzes

2)   Laboratory sessions

3)   Demonstration sessions

4)   Weekly help sessions

On-Line Instruction/Quizes

The course will run using an on-line tool called Moodle. Go to augnet.augsburg.edu -- click on My Courses (moodle) and under Winter Trimester select CSC 240.

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 approximately 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).

Laboratory Sessions – we will break from the classroom and go into the lab for some demonstrations and labs. You will write a journal of your laboratory projects.

Demonstration Sessions - SEE MOODLE CALENDAR FOR CLASS SCHEDULE


 NOTE the WEC  meeting is Friday January 19, 2007.  Not the published WEC 12 January 2007!

Rochester

Topics

19 January 2007

Intro, Media Chap 1 - 8

26 January 2007

Encoding Chap 9 - 16

2 February 2007

Internetworking Chap 17 - 23

16 February 2007

IP Chap 24-27

23 February 2007

Applications Chap 28-34

9 March 2007

Client Server Chap 35-41

23 March 2007

Wrap Up 

Help Sessions – To be announced (depending on students’ schedules). These will be open sessions for you to ask questions and work on problems you may have.  I will check e-mail daily at about 7 AM and 7 PM if you have questions.


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