CS410—Networks and Networking—Fall 2014

Syllabus (postscript) (pdf)

Hours (D225)

TBD

Class directory

All of the files in this web are also available in the class directory on tauon: ~jrogers/cs410/ These are distributed among sub-directories, so you will need to look around.

Schedule

	Date	Reading	Out	Due	QOD	Notes
1	Th 28/Aug		Python Ball PDU		What is the final final (so called) Find the actual protocol definition for Internet echo
2	M 1/Sept	Section 2.7 Python Tutorial			What is the difference between `import BallData` and `from BallData import *`? What is `AF_INET`? Where is it defined in the `man` pages?
3	Th 4/Sept	Rest of Ch. 2		Python Ball PDU
4	M 8/Sept		Project 1: rbounce Assignment 0: Chapter 1		Working multi-machine rbounce example.
5	Th 11/Sept			Project 1, Part 1: pitcher/catcher	What is SNA (wrt networks) How do you get command line arguments in python? Which list does the server port go in to add an accept event to select?	We will start the HTML section, make certain you have read it. Part 1 due date has been moved back to Friday at 4:00.
6	M 15/Sept		Assignment 2: Well known services & wireshark HTTP		Why are there both carriage-return and linefeed characters? What are the (main) differences between HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 (From RFCs) What are the HTTP 1.1 header fields. (From RFC)
7	Th 18/Sept			Project 1
8	M 22/Sept		Proj2 HTTP servers		Briefly describe the HTTP response codes.
9	Th 25/Sept	Ch. 3.1–3.4 (inclusive)		Assignment 1: Ch. 1 Questions
10	M 29/Sept			Assignment 2: Well known services & wireshark HTTP		Present Ch. 1 answers
11	Th 2/Oct
12	M 6/Oct	Ch. 3.1–3.4 (inclusive)		Project 1, Part 1: Simple Web Server		We will start Ch. 3 today. Make certain that you have completed the read
13	Th 9/Oct
14	M 13/Oct		Exam 1	Project 1, Part 2&3: Threaded and Persistent Web Server		Exam 1 is due no later than Tuesday 14/Oct 4:00pm

Handouts

Python Socket Programming
- UDPclient.py
- UDPserver.py
- TCPclient.py
- TCPserver.py
- TCPtrans.py TCP transciever
SocketStream
- SocketStream.py
- —Note that this version includes a argument for the constructor that selects non-blocking/blocking mode
- mirrorServerStream.py Example: mirrorServer using SocketStreams
Threaded TCPServer example
- threadedTCPserver.py

Assignments

Assignment 0: aboutABall.h C++ style Ball PDU class
Assignment 1: Chapter 1 questions
Assignment 2: TCP Services/INTRO&HTTP labs
- INTRO lab
- HTTP lab

Projects

Project 1: mirror rbounce client/server/transciever
Project 2: π-ute Web Server
- python skeleton
- python skeleton of HTTPReq PDU class
- 400.html
- 404.html (Think twice before sending me a note about not being able to access these last two.)
- A menagerie of pages useful for testing:
  - One Bang!
  - Lots of Bangs!!!!!!!!!!
  - One Big! File
  - Many Big! Files
  - Many Many Big! Files (You may want to use this one locally only.)
Project 3: Reliable Data Transfer

Miscellaneous Code

Color.py Some color definitions as python (r,g,b) triples
Colormap.py A class for mapping numeric values to colors
CircularBuffer.py A fixed-length circular buffer.

Solutions

Assignment 0
- Ball.py Python Ball PDU class
Assignment 1
- soln1.pdf Chapter 1 Exercises, model solutions
Project 1 RBounce
- part1sol.pdf Ball.py, pitcher.py, catcher.py
- proj1sol.pdf Ball.py, pitcher.py, catcher.py, mirrorClient.py, mirrorServer.py, mirrorTrans.py
Project 2 π-ute Web Server
- soln2Part1.pdf simpleWebServer.0.py, simpleWebServer.py, HTTPReq.py

Supplimentary Material

Text's Student Resources Website
References
Tutorials
- Python.org Tutorial (Authoritative and less hopeless than most others.)
- learnpython.org: Tutorial with broswer-based interpreter
- stephensugden.com/crash_into_python: Crash Course for learning Python in 3 hours
- Open to suggestions for other Python tutorials that seem to work better for you.

Syllabus (postscript) (pdf)

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