CS 331 Computer Networks
Course Outline

• CS 231 - Data Structures and Algorithms
• CS 232 - Computer Organization
• Or permission of the instructor

1. Students demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental concepts of computer networks and widely-used networking technologies.
2. Students demonstrate an understanding of the Internet suite of protocols.
3. Students demonstrate an ability to utilize the commonly used networking tools.
4. Students demonstrate an ability to analyze the network performance.
5. Students present methods, algorithms, results, and designs in an organized and competently written manner.

You are expected to email me your projects. The subject of your email should follow this format CS331 Fall2019 Proj# -- Your Name (e.g., CS331 Fall2019 Proj1 -- Ying Li). The email should have three attachments, your solutions to the problem, one archive for your source codes, and one PDF for your write-up. All your source codes should be compressed into an archive, and your solutions to the problem set should be converted into a single PDF file. Please follow the instructions to submit your projects.

Projects are graded based on a 30 point scale. Late projects will receive a maximum score of 26/30, so handing in something on the due date is generally better than handing in a complete assignment late. As you all have busy schedules, you may have one four-day extensions you can use at your discretion over the course of the semester, excepting only the final project. That means you may choose to hand in one of the projects except the last one on Saturday instead of Tuesday.

• Two midterms: There will be two midterms on Thursday, October 10, and Thursday, November 14.
• Final Exam: It will be on Wednesday, December 11.

• Projects: 55%
• Two midterms: 20%
• Final Exam: 20%
• Class Participation: 5%

Computer science, both academically and professionally, is a collaborative discipline. In any collaboration, however, all parties are expected to make their own contributions and to generously credit the contributions of others. In our class, therefore, collaboration on homework and programming assignments is encouraged, but you as an individual are responsible for understanding all the material in the assignment and doing your own work. Always strive to do your best, give generous credit to others, start early, and seek help early from both your professors and classmates.

The following rules are intended to help you get the most out of your education and to clarify the line between honest and dishonest work. We reserve the right to ask you to verbally explain the reasoning behind any answer or code that you turn in and to modify your project grade based on your answers. It is vitally important that you turn in work that is your own. We do use automated plagiarism detection software, so please be sure to abide by these, rather minimal, rules. Reports of academic dishonesty are handled by an academic review board and a finding of academic dishonesty may result in significant sanctions. For more details on Colby's Academic Integrity policies and procedures, see colby.edu/academicintegrity.

• If you have had a substantive discussion of any homework or programming solution with a classmate, then be sure to cite them in your write-up. If you are unsure of what constitutes "substantive", then ask me or err on the side of caution. As one rule of thumb, if you see more than 10 lines of someone else's code, then you should cite them. You will not be penalized for working together.
• You must not copy answers or code from another student either by hand or electronically. Another way to think about it is that you should be talking English with one another, not program languages.

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