Mark Humphrys - Teaching - CA651

Introduction to Networks and Operating Systems

Course Descriptor

• CA651 - Introduction to Networks and Operating Systems (and here)

• GDF

• 50 exam - 50 practical.

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SOLVED - A challenge if you are bored

• SOLVED - I have finally understood the Chrome rotated image issue.
• Thanks to Curnan Reidy and Brian Rice.

Exam

• 3 hour exam.
• Exam will have:
  • Some Shell
  • No Java or Javascript

• Past exam papers

How to contact me

Reading

Networks

• Computer Networks, Andrew S. Tanenbaum and David J. Wetherall. - Library 004.6/TAN.
  • 5th Edition, 2011
  • 4th Edition, 2003, also good.
  • But not earlier editions.
  • (References in notes are to 4th edn.)

• Also recommended:
  • Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, Jakob Nielsen, 2000. - Library, 005.72.NIE.

  • A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet, John Naughton, 2000.

  • The Victorian Internet, Tom Standage, 1998. - Library, 384.109 STA. Shows the 19th cent. electric telegraph, and its 18th cent. manual predecessors, as early forms of Internet.

Java and Javascript

• Java in a Nutshell, David Flanagan
  • 5th edn, 2005.
  • Earlier editions also good.

• An Introduction to Network Programming with Java, Jan Graba
  • 2nd edn, 2006.
  • 1st edn also good

• cafeaulait.org
  • Java Network Programming, Elliotte Rusty Harold
    • 3rd edn, 2004.

• javascriptworld.com
  • JavaScript, by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith
    • 8th edn, 2011.
    • 7th and 6th edns also good
    • Scripts for 6th edn

Operating Systems

• Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne - Library 005.43. Bookshop.
  • 9th edn, 2012
  • Earlier editions also good.

• UNIX in a Nutshell, O'Reilly Books - Library 005.43. Bookshop.
  • 4th edn, 2005
  • Earlier editions also good.

• Linux in a Nutshell, O'Reilly Books
  • 6th edn, 2009
  • Earlier editions also good.

About the notes

My notes contain many hyperlinks to background material. Some students get confused about what is the core course. The core course is anything that is linked to directly on this front page. All other links are just background material.

Getting started on Linux

Introduction to Networks

Introduction to Operating Systems through Linux

More on Networks and Operating Systems

Extra notes - Not on course

More Networks Layer 1 - Physical Layer Phone lines Irish broadband speeds Coaxial cable Fiber optic Wireless Uses of Wireless The mobile phone system Power line communication Layer 2 - Data Link Layer Framing Error detection and correction Hamming code (error correction) Polynomial codes (error detection) Simple Data Link protocol sample code Sliding Window protocols Broadcast networks (e.g. Ethernet) Layer 3 - Network Layer Layer 4 - Transport Layer Sockets and Ports List of Ports Layer 5 - Application Layer More Operating Systems Further Shell How to pass information to a program Shell functions What is wrong with these Shell scripts? Writing short utilities in other languages C++ Arithmetic in Shell Perl Aliases Windows command line C++ Reference

Practical

50 percent of module.

I will ask for a demo of this in the last lab in week 12.

Library categories

Networks

• 004 - Data processing, computer science
  • 004.6 - Interfacing and communications

• 384 - Communications; Telecommunication
  • 384.3 - Computer communication

Java

• 005 - Computer programming, programs, data
  • 005.1 - Programming
    • 005.13 - Programming languages

Operating Systems

• 005 - Computer programming, programs, data
  • 005.4 - Systems programming and programs