0657.312B   Communications and Systems Software

This page contains a copy of the course outline that you were handed on the first day of class, along with links to resources you may find useful. The maintainer of these pages is Wayne Summers.

Course Outline

The course outline is available from here.

Lecture notes

The lecture notes are posted here. Questions and problems concerning the lecture notes should be directed to Wayne.

Assignments and resources

As mentioned in class, you will need a range of ports to complete your assignments. Your allocated port range may be found here.

Please note: Technical support questions (those concerning the setup and maintenance of the School computers) should be directed to the Technical Support Group. You can find support personnel in GG.26.

There are HTML and postscript versions of each assignment. They are all kept in /home/312/public_html. Use lpr to print them.

If you are surfing from GB.13, the following are available to you. Please note, these are not available via HTTP. You have to be actually logged into a GB.13 workstation, or be logged into one of the Suns.

Assignment submission

You are required to submit your assignment both electronically, and on paper. The paper submission should be delivered to the 312 hand-in box on level 1 of G block. The electronic submission should be made using Tony McGregor's web based Assignment Submission System.

Useful links

A note about Java: There are two versions of Java installed -- 1.1 and 1.2. You are welcome to use either in your assignments, but remember that as Java 1.2 is still rather new, it is still unproven. For now, all assignments will be marked using Java 1.2. In any case, please read the note below about using Java on SCMS machines.

Wayne Summers