The lectures for this class are Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30-11:20 in HOlmes 247.
There is also a lab for this class, in Keller 304A. The lab is from 11:30-1:20, either Tuesday or Thursday depending on your section. The lab will generally be open until at least 2:30 Tuesdays and Thursdays. Specific arrangements for the labs will be determined in consultation with the class.
The textbook is "Mastering Networks -- An Internet Lab Manual 5.0", by Jörg Liebeherr and Magda el Zarki, 2004. The textbook is required.
Attendance is mandatory but not graded. If a student misses a scheduled class in which a quiz is given, that quiz cannot be made up.
Labs are due on time, with a loss of 20% of the points for every day they are late. Quizzes must be taken early or on time, unless there are well-documented extenuating circumstances.
Each student must bring to each lab all of the following:
Bringing food or drinks to the lab is prohibited, since it could result in damage to the equipment which would affect the entire class. There will be no eating or drinking, and no open food or drinks in the lab.
Collaboration in this class is not allowed for quizzes or exams. Collaboration is encouraged for labs unless otherwise stated. In particular, the pre-labs must be completed individually and brought to the lab. Whenever a lab report is the result of a collaboration, all collaborators must be listed as the authors. Whenever something turned in is taken in part from an external resource, the source must be credited (except for the textbook).
In this course, cheating consists simply of turning in, as the student's own work, material taken from other sources. For example, although collaboration on most labs is encouraged, simply copying the results of another student's work is considered cheating. Collaboration assumes active, approximately equal collaboration from all participants.
In general, cheating means presenting the work of somebody else as one's own, or providing one's work to somebody else to help them cheat.
No Cheating Policy: any cheating will result in a grade of 0 for the assignment or exam the first time it is detected, and a grade of F for the course for any subsequent instance. Any instance of cheating will also be recorded in the student's ICS department file, and may be reported to the office of the Dean of Students, possibly resulting in disciplinary action against the student.
The Student Conduct Code has more details on both impermissible behavior (see for example section I.B.H, Academic Dishonesty) and possible disciplinary sanctions.
If you have any questions, please contact the instructor.
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