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Final re-exam infoWritten on 28.10.15 (last change on 09.11.15) by Arnd Hartmanns Dear students of Data Networks, the results of the re-exam of the final exam are now available in dCMS. We had 47 participants, out of which 34 (72.3%) achieved 30 or more points and thus passed the exam. We will offer the opportunity to inspect our correction of your exams on Thursday,… Read more Dear students of Data Networks, the results of the re-exam of the final exam are now available in dCMS. We had 47 participants, out of which 34 (72.3%) achieved 30 or more points and thus passed the exam. We will offer the opportunity to inspect our correction of your exams on Thursday, December 10, between 15:00 and 18:00 in building E1 3, room 528. As usual, we will assign those interested in looking at their exam correction to time slots. Thus, if you are interested, please register for the inspection in exactly one of the two available time periods (15:00-16:00, 16:00-18:00) on your personal page in dCMS by December 8. We will also limit the number of participants in the inspection and assign the available time slots in a first-come, first-served manner, so the registrations in dCMS may close early. Best regards, Arnd Hartmanns & the DN2015 team |
Mid-term re-exam infoWritten on 23.10.15 by Arnd Hartmanns Dear students of Data Networks, the results of the re-exam of the mid-term exam are now available in dCMS. We had 49 participants, out of which 32 (65.3%) achieved 28 or more points and thus passed the exam. We will likely offer an opportunity to inspect our correction of your exam on December… Read more Dear students of Data Networks, the results of the re-exam of the mid-term exam are now available in dCMS. We had 49 participants, out of which 32 (65.3%) achieved 28 or more points and thus passed the exam. We will likely offer an opportunity to inspect our correction of your exam on December 10; details will be announced separately. Best regards, Arnd Hartmanns & the DN2015 team |
Data Networks
This core course (Stammvorlesung) adresses Bachelor and Master students in Computer Science and related programs. Bachelor students should have passed the base lectures Programmierung 1 and Programmierung 2. Some programming experience (e.g. in C, Java, C# or JavaScript) is recommended. The language of the course is English.
Contents
The course will explain data networks. Internet protocols will be used to motivate and explain basic concepts in data networks, as the Internet is today's data network par excellence. Hands-on experience will be gained in programming labs.
The course will roughly follow the book Computer Networking – A Top-Down Approach by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross (sixth edition). There will be reading assignments based on this book. While the library has a few copies available, we do recommend (groups of) students to obtain their own copy of this book.
Organisation
| Mondays | 14:15-16:00 | Building E2 5, Lecture Hall II |
| Wednesdays | 14:15-16:00 | Building E1 3, Lecture Hall 002 |
We have reserved the following times for tutorials:
| Tuesdays | 10:15-12:00 |
| 14:15-16:00 | |
| 16:15-18:00 | |
| Wednesdays | 10:15-12:00 |
To pass the course, students must pass the mid-term exam (or its re-exam), the final exam (or its re-exam), and the programming and modelling labs. The exam schedule is as follows:
| Mid-term exam | Wednesday, June 10 | 60 min in 14:00-16:00 |
| Final exam | Wednesday, July 29 | 60 min in 14:00-16:00 |
| Mid-term re-exam | Tuesday, October 06 | 60 min in 14:00-18:00 |
| Final re-exam | Tuesday, October 06 | 60 min in 14:00-18:00 |
The duration of each exam is 60 minutes. The re-exams may be oral exams of a different duration. The final grade will be determined by the results of the two exams (or the corresponding re-exams, if the respective result is better) plus the results of the programming and modelling labs.
There will be multiple programming and modelling labs. The languages of the programming labs will be JavaScript and Java or C# (student's choice), and the language of the modelling labs will be Modest.