CS 450 Spring 2012

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• Final Exam Wednesday 3:30 to 5:30 in Lecture Center D1
  • Everything covered all semester is fair game - Emphasis will be on material not covered on the first midterm.
  • Closed book, closed notes, closed calculator, closed neighbor, open brain.
  • Please sit in every other row starting from the front, with at least two empty seats ( or one aisle ) between students.
• Chapter 5 Wireshark Labs - Due Thursday 26 April at 1:30 P.M. via Blackboard
  • NAT
  • Ethernet and ARP
• Chapter 4 Wireshark Labs - Due Thursday 12 April at 1:30 P.M. via Blackboard
  • IP
  • ICMP
• Midterm Exam Thursday 8 March - 2:00 - 3:15 P.M. in Lecture Center F6
• Note Two Changes to HW3:
  • Due date pushed back a week, and set to 11:59 P.M.
  • The recvDataFrom( ) method should have two extra arguments, for the return address IP and Port, similar to sendDataTo( )
• Course Policies - Includes instructor information and original planned schedule.
• Homework 3 - Due Thursday 22 March at 11:59P.M. via Blackboard
• Chapter 3 Wireshark Labs - Due Tuesday 20 March at 1:30 P.M. via Blackboard
  • TCP
    • alice.txt
  • UDP
• Homework 2 - Due Thursday 23 February at 1:30 P.M. via Blackboard
  • Linux man pages:
    • accept( )
    • bind( )
    • close( )
    • connect( )
    • gethostbyname( )
    • ip( )
    • listen( )
    • read( )
    • select( )
    • sleep( ), msleep( )
    • socket( )
    • write( )
• Chapter 2 Wireshark Labs - Due Tuesday 28 February at 1:30 P.M. via Blackboard
  • HTTP
  • DNS
• Homework 1 - Due Thursday 2 February at 11:59 P.M. via Blackboard
  • Wireshark Lab
  • Links & Notes related to NCurses:
    • http://linuxmanpages.com/man3/ncurses.3x.php
    • http://linux.die.net/man/3/ncurses
    • http://linux.die.net/man/3/curs_inopts
    • http://linux.die.net/man/3/getch
    • You need to compile with -lncurses
  • A link on how to do it using kbhit:
    • http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/63166-kbhit-linux.html
  • Some links on pthreads:
    • http://www.amparo.net/ce155/thread-ex.html #thread
    • http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialPosixThreads.html #thread
  • And at least one student used select:
    • http://compgroups.net/comp.unix.programmer/reading-stdin-with-SELECT
    • http://linuxmanpages.com/man2/select.2.php
• John Bell's Home page, including office information and links to:
  • John Bell's Spring 2012 schedule.
  • Programming Resources
  • Exam Philosophies and Samples
• TA's CS 450 Web Page
• Textbook Website

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