Mark Humphrys - Teaching - CA651

Introduction to Networks and Operating Systems

Course Descriptor

• CA651 - Introduction to Networks and Operating Systems (and here)

• GDF

• 50 exam - 50 practical.

• email lists
  • ca651 list archive

Exam

• 3 hour exam.
• Exam will have:
  • Some Shell
  • No Java or Javascript

• Past exam papers

How to contact me

Reading

Networks

• Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, 2003, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall. - Library 004.6/TAN.
  • Not earlier editions.
  • 5th edn out 2011. This is recommended.
  • References for now still refer to 4th edn.

• Also recommended:
  • Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, Jakob Nielsen, 2000. - Library, 005.72.NIE.

  • A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet, John Naughton, 2000.

  • The Victorian Internet, Tom Standage, 1998. - Library, 384.109 STA. Shows the 19th cent. electric telegraph, and its 18th cent. manual predecessors, as early forms of Internet.

Java and Javascript

• Java in a Nutshell, David Flanagan, 2005.

• Also recommended:
  • An Introduction to Network Programming with Java, Jan Graba, 2003.

  • Java Network Programming, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 2004.
    • website

• JavaScript and Ajax for the Web by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith (7th edn, 2009)
  • scripts

Operating Systems

• Operating System Concepts (and here) by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne, 8th edn, 2008 (though earlier editions also good). Library 005.43. Bookshop.

• UNIX in a Nutshell, O'Reilly Books, 4th edn, 2008 (though earlier editions also good). Library 005.43. Bookshop.

• Linux in a Nutshell, O'Reilly Books, 5th edn, 2005 (though earlier editions also good).

Notes

My notes contain many hyperlinks to background material. Some students get confused about what is the core course. The core course is anything that is linked to directly on this front page. All other links are just background material.

Not on course this year

The network layers Layer 1 - Physical Layer Phone lines Irish broadband speeds Coaxial cable Fiber optic Wireless Uses of Wireless The mobile phone system Power line communication Layer 2 - Data Link Layer Framing Error detection and correction Hamming code (error correction) Polynomial codes (error detection) Simple Data Link protocol sample code Sliding Window protocols Broadcast networks (e.g. Ethernet) Layer 3 - Network Layer Layer 4 - Transport Layer Sockets and Ports Layer 5 - Application Layer

Scripting Shell functions What is wrong with these Shell scripts? Writing short utilities in other languages C++ Arithmetic in Shell Perl Aliases Windows command line C++ Reference

Labs

Practical

Not yet ready for launch. Practicals below may not be the ones we use.

Deadline TBA.

1. Javascript Ajax Flickr application
   • 20 percent
   • What to hand up

2. Java link checker
   • 30 percent
   • What to hand up

Library categories

Networks

• 004 - Data processing, computer science
  • 004.6 - Interfacing and communications

• 384 - Communications; Telecommunication
  • 384.3 - Computer communication

Java

• 005 - Computer programming, programs, data
  • 005.1 - Programming
    • 005.13 - Programming languages

Operating Systems

• 005 - Computer programming, programs, data
  • 005.4 - Systems programming and programs