31W6 Organisation

Requirements

In order to obtain a grade for this unit you must:

• submit all items of assessed work
• attend the examination.

If you fail to meet these requirements without due cause you will not receive a grade. This rule may be relaxed for students who can show good cause for failure to meet a requirement. This may include illness (for which a medical certificate or other evidence will be required) but will not include simply having got behind with work.

Attendance requirements are laid down in the University Degree Regulations. For this unit the prescribed classes are the tutorials. A deferred examination is available for those students who are eligible. There is no repeat examination.

Lectures

The course unit coordinator is Prof. Leslie Smith (email address lss, Room 4B76). The co-lecturer is Mr. Richard Bland (email address rbl, Room 4X1). The lecturers will cover two separate but related streams of material. The first lecture is on Friday 16th February. The lecture schedule is:

Monitor the course web pages http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~lss/31W6/ from time to time. Among other things they will be used for FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) on assignments.

Tutorials

Tutorials will be taken by the course lecturers, and will generally be set for the week following the one in which material is covered in the lectures. Attendance at tutorials is required and will be recorded. The first tutorials are in the week beginning 26th February.

Assessment

Two assignments total 40% of the course mark, with an examination making up the other 60%. The assignments will be based on protocol implementation and network application development respectively. The assignment deadlines are provisionally 22nd March and 27th April. When submitting assignments, it would be helfpul to use a plastic wallet marked clearly with your name and student ID. Avoid stapling or binding sheets such that they are difficult to separate and assess. Note that the Department requires individual work in assignments; copying and close collaboration are not acceptable.

Textbooks

Copies of some of the recommended books have been placed in the Reserved Book Room.

Up one level to 31W6 (Communications and Networking)

Professor Leslie Smith, room 4B76. Updated 15 Feb 2001.
(email address lss)