Network Programming
Exam
Year | Semester | Date | Period | Language | In charge |
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2011 | spring | 18.01-29.04. | 3-4 | English | Markku Kojo |
Lectures
Time | Room | Lecturer | Date |
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Tue 12-14 | D122 | Markku Kojo | 18.01.2011-23.02.2011 |
Wed 12-14 | C222 | Markku Kojo | 18.01.2011-23.02.2011 |
Tue 12-14 | CK111 | Markku Kojo | 15.03.2011-15.03.2011 |
Wed 12-14 | C222 | Markku Kojo | 16.03.2011-16.03.2011 |
Exercise groups
Time | Room | Instructor | Date | Observe |
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Tue 14-16 | D122 | Aki Nyrhinen | 24.01.2011—18.03.2011 | |
Tue 14-16 | CK111 | Aki Nyrhinen | 21.03.2011—01.04.2011 |
Luentosali on vaihtunut! Kurssi luennoidaan englanniksi. Kurssille perustettaneen lisää harjoitusryhmiä.
The lecture room has changed! Due to limited resources, the attendance to the course may need to be restricted. There can be more exercise sessions.
General
The course is an intermediate module optional course.
The course gives practical and hands-on skills in designing and programming TCP/IP networking applications in Unix environment.
Students accepted to the course.
Course Exam: Fri April 8, 2011 at 16:00-20:00, A111
Completing the course
The course can only be completed by active participation to the course. Active participation means being active in the weekly exercices, completing the programming exercise and the programming project, and
passing the course exam. Only the course exam can be retaken, but it requires that all the other requirements of the course have been completed acceptably.
Teaching and Other Course Arrangements
Teaching and Other Course Arrangements available here
The course includes
- 28 hours of lectures (4 h / week)
- 7 weekly exercises
- programming exercise
- programming project
- course exam (2,5 hours)
Passing the course by active participation requires
- taking the course exam (max. 25 points available, min. 11 points required for passing)
- participating actively in the weekly exercices that may give max. 8 points. At least one (1) point is required for passing.
- programming exercise (max. 4 points)
- programming project (max. 23 points available, min. 9 points required for passing)
The grading is based on the total points achieved. A passing grade requires at least 30 points in total.
Exercises:
- Active participation to the exercises is highly recommended and known to be useful.
- Collecting exercise points requires active participation in exercises by preparing the answers to the exercise tasks before the exercise group meets. The answers need not to be perfect, but should be in the right ballpark. In the beginning of the exercise session each student marks to a name list the tasks that she/he has completed (the name list is provided by the instructor). A marked task means that the student is prepared to present her/his answer to the group.
- Each completed exercise task gives one exercise task point (ETP).
- In total there will be approx. 6 exercise tasks per week. Roughly 1/3 ETPs out of max. ETPs gives one (1) execise point and 5/6 of max. ETPs gives the maximum 8 exercise points.
Literature and material
Course Book:
Stevens W. R., Fenner B., Rudolf A.M: UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, 3rd Edition , Addison Wesley, 2004. The course covers the chapters 1-17, 20-26 and 30 plus Appendixes A-D of the course book.
Course Content:
A more detailed description of the course content is available here.
Lecture Notes:
Lecture notes are available here.
Exercises:
Weekly exercises
Programming exercise (Feb 17-25, 2011) - Exercise period is over.
Programming exercise assignment.
NOTE: Problem with Ukko cluster connection blocking has been solved. Programs that use fork() system call are now strictly prohibited to test on the "main frame" Unix computers of the CS department (i.e., melkki, melkinpaasi). Preferably use the computer which you are sitting at, or in remote use, please select some nodes of the department high performance cluster Ukko (ukko001.hpc.cs.helsinki.fi - ukko240.hpc.cs.helsinki.fi) for remote login when testing these programs.
Project
Project Tasks
Project Instructions
Example Programs from Course Book(s):
- Unix Network Programming, Vol 1, 3rd Ed.: unpv13e.tar.gz
- Unix Network Programming, Vol 2: unpv22e.tar.gz