-- DonaldActon - 07 Feb 2011

CPSC 317 CWSEI Resources

This page can be used to capture interesting references, resources and other materials relevant to the CWSEI related evaluation/revision of CPSC 317, Internet Computing.

Meetings

• January 27, 2011 -- NotesJan27
• February 10, 2011 CPSC317- Winter Term 1 Survey
  • LearningOutcomes
• March 24, 2011
  • DonaldsTopicLevelLearningGoals
  • NewBigPictureTopics
• Meeting April 7 and 21, 2011
  • PossibleAssignemnts
  • PossibleCourseTopics
• Next Meeting: CS317June09Meeting.ics: June 2 Meeting Thursday June 9th, ICCS 202, 14:00

Possible Course Content

• CourseModules - first list
• CourseModules2 - May 16 list
• Module Lesson Plans
  • SocketProgramming
  • MultiMedia
  • CloudComputing

CWSEI Funding Proposal

• GeneralProposalGuidlines
• ActualProposal

Videos

• Nova: Spy Factory - This is a fascinating episode that provides a glimpse into the world of spying and the role played by computer networks.

IPv6

• IPv6 Talks by Vinton Cerf and G Huston

Sample Course Related Videos

• This is a link to Martin Carlisle's home page. Martin has done some interesting work, backed by research studies, demonstrating improvement in learning outcomes when students are asked to watch short focused videos before class and then the class focusses on having the students do things in class. The in class work is then reviewed and, during the next class, good examples (The Gallery of Glory) and "bad" examples (The Isle of Infamy) are shown to and discussed with the students. Examples of Martin's videos can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/carlislemc.
• Technology in the Cloud Plus some Challenges and Opportunities. This is a presentation by Doug Terry, SIGOPS chair, and lead for the ACM cloud computing Tech Packs.

Software

This section contains pointers to actual software systems that could be of interest.

• zeromq User layer software that encapsulates the socket API to simplify making network connections and building distributed applications.
• ownCloud Software for a personal storage cloud
• Google Cloud Data Storage Google labs provides an API for storing data in their cloud. Actually the google labs area has a number of interesting APIs that we might be able to make use of in a course.
• [[http://www.netbook.cs.purdue.edu/][Douglas Comer's Networking Resources] A simplified API for network programming is available via a link on the left side.

Other References

• Microsoft Azure This is Microsoft's cloud computing environment. The panel area in the top left has some interesting links, such as "INtroduction to cloud computing"
• zeromq User layer software that encapsulates the socket API to simplify making network connections and building distributed applications.
• Bitcoin A P2P virtual currency system.
• Teaching Computer Networking Fundamentals Using Practical Laboratory Exercises
• Teaching by Layers Considered Harmful for Network Education
• Stanford on teaching without lectures This is from the Stanford Computer Science Department newsletter. On page cs-4 at the top there is a brief discussion on using pre-class videos and then in-class activities as the course delivery mechanism.
• ACM SIGCOMM August 2002- Workshop on Computer Networking: Curriculum Designs and Educational Challenges
• Digital Nation This is a PBS Frontline site dealing with the subject of growing up digital. Part of the video, which can be viewed from this site, deals with the issue of students multitasking and how it affects their ability to perform certain tasks.
• Tech Packs from ACM - One will need to login with an ACM ID to get this stuff.
  • Cloud Computing There is also an associated keynote presentation called Technology in the Cloud: Plus some Challenges and Opportunities. This is a presentation by Doug Terry, SIGOPS chair, and lead for the ACM cloud computing Tech Pack.
  • Parallel Computing
  • Mobile Computing Not available as of Feb 08, 2011
  • Software as a service Not available as of Feb 08, 2011
• Open Course Ware Type Resources
  • Computer Networks 6.263J 16.375 Graduate networking course at MIT. Some of the latter part of the course material may be relevant.
  • Computer Networking 6.829 Fall 2002 Another graduate level networking course from MIT. Course number 6.829 from the fall 2002.
  • Distributed Systems 6.842 An MIT course on designing distributed systems. This might be more applicable for 416, however a subset of the material may be appropriate for 317.
  • Computer Engineering 6.033 This is a course on designing/architecting computer systems. Some of the content deals with the construction and organization of computers networking.
  • Advanced Computer Neworking CS 244, Stanford A graduate course in networking. The course reading list is quite extensive and includes areas like the history of the Internet, end to end arguments, and stupid networks.
  • Oacket Flight Animation of packet exchanges for TCP connections - very cool
• CS317June09Meeting.ics: June 8 Meeting