Modern Data Communications: COMPSCI 314 Semester 2, City Campus

You may look at the Archive section to see material from earlier years.

Nevil Brownlee is glad to answer email questions, and does not have formal office hours, preferring an open door policy, so that students can see him whenever they desire, from about 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. If the time is inconvenient he may ask you to come back later, or perhaps make an appointment.

Cris Calude is glad to answer email questions.

We are unlikely to answer email from home, so do not expect responses during the evening or weekend.

All email messages must include the class "catalogue" number (314) and your student ID number. It's nice to give your name, too. Messages which do not not include this information may well be treated as spam. This applies especially to those from a non-Uni address.

The Department of Computer Science has a general policy on cheating and plagiarism, within the University policy on academic honesty. Briefly, if we detect material in assignments or projects that appears to be copied from elsewhere without due acknowledgement, we will normally give zero marks for that assignment or project. Appeals must be in writing to the Head of Department (not to the lecturer).

There will be a test near the middle of the semester and a two hour final exam. See exam page for more details.

This table shows the topics expected to be covered in the lectures, together with assignment and test dates. All details are subject to change.

• The dates listed are the Monday of each week, with all assignments due on Fridays.
• While this is the general plan of the allocation of topics to each lecture, the division and allocation of material is by no means guaranteed.
• Topics may very well move slightly as the course develops.
  The numbers at the start of each lecture entry are just the sequential numbers of the lectures.
• For each topic, the textbook sections we expect to cover are shown on the Lectures page.
• Table not yet updated for 2012!