Syllabus for Computer Networks

Instructor:

• Dr. Kenneth J. Christensen (Associate Professor)
  Office: ENB 319
  Office phone: 974-4761
  Email: christen@csee.usf.edu
  WWW: http://www.csee.usf.edu/~christen

Teaching assistant:

• William Frost
  Office: TA offices (third floor ENB)
  Email: wfrost@csee.usf.edu
  

Class location and time:

• Class will be held in LIF 269 on Monday and Wednesday from 11:00am to 12:15pm.

Office hours:

• My office hours are Monday through Thursday from 5:00pm to 6:00pm. I am totally email driven, all email is answered in 24 hours or less.
• William's office hours are Monday 10:00am to 11:00am and Tuesday 1:00pm to 2:00pm.

Test book:

• The textbook for this course is Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Second Edition, by J. Kurose and R. Ross (ISBN 0-201-97699-4).
• Supplementary reading will be assigned from Web-based materials.

Prerequisites:

• A modest background in probability and statistics is assumed. The must be a proficient C programmer.

Grades:

• A = 90% through 100%
• B = 80% through 89%
• C = 70% through 79%
• D = 60% through 69%
• F = Less than 60%

Submission of late work:

Late work (assignments or project) will not be accepted except in cases of verifiable emergencies (e.g., hospitalization, hurricane evacuation, and so on).

Academic honesty:

If you cheat you will be kicked-out of the graduate program and out of the department. This is the departmental rule that I must enforce. On exams, you do not give or receive help. Calculator swapping is considered as cheating. For the assignments and project, you may consult with other people, but you must correctly cite and reference such consultations and the results thereof. Plagiarism is considered to be a significant breach of of academic honesty. If in doubt, ask me. Ignorance is not an excuse. I hate writing statements like this!

Standard note from the Provost regarding religious observances:

"Students who anticipate the necessity of being absent from class due to the observation of a major religious observance must provide notice of the date(s) to the instructor, in writing, by the second class meeting."