| HW to HAND IN |
Comments |
Points |
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| 3-04 M | No HW TO TURN IN | SPRING TRIMESTER STARTS | |
| 3-05 T | Outline Done | Bring Full Outline of Telecommunications Primer for use on quiz. |
25 pts |
| 3-06 W | Exercises 7.2 | Can be sent as an email | R |
| 3-07 H | None to hand in |
Telecommunications Vocab Quiz |
R |
| 3-08 F | No class but this should be done: Exercises 7.3 #1,2 |
>
Read Ch. 7.3.1 & 7.3.2 > Read Ch. 7.4.1 through 7.4.3 |
R |
| 3-11 M | Exercises 7.3 #3-8 |
> Exercises 7.3 #1,2 Can be sent as an email before class > Exercises 7.3 #3-8 Can be sent as an email before class |
R |
| 3-12 T | Exercises 7.4 & 7.5 | Read Ch. 7.4.4 & Ch. 7.5.1 | R |
| 3-13 W | Exercise 7.6 | Can be sent as an email before class | R |
| 3-14 H | Digital Transmission Online Lecture |
CS 105 The Web: Technologies and Techniques is an online Williams College Computer Science Course that overlaps with much of this chapter. Please review all of the Chapter 3 Digital Transmission pages:
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Quiz soon! |
| 3-15 F | Finish Digital Transmission Online Lecture | Brian Brown at Mahasarakham
University in Thailand has a nice set of basic pages on various
transmission media and channel organization in his web page
"Data
Communications".
Take the first two online practice tests. |
Quiz soon! |
| 3-18 M | Take online practice tests #3-6 | These
are just good reviews after you've perused the web site. Don't worry about
specific wiring or protocols- they are not the reason why we visited! Quiz over the topics in over Digital Transmissions & Transmission Media as they relate to Chapter 7 and your Telecommunications Primer outline. |
30 pt Quiz today! |
| 3-19 T | Written review questions brought to class | Review outline for Chapter 7 topics worked on | 12 pts |
| 3-20 W | Study for Chapter 7 test | Chapter 7 & Telecommunications test | 100 pts |
| 3-21 H | none | ||
| 3-25 through 4-1-02 |
SPRING BREAK! [Top] |
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| 4-2 T | none | ||
| 4-3 W | Read Ch. 8.1 | Do
Web tour of Routers to answer
the vocab below: > router, hub, LAN, Ethernet (100 base-T), protocol, switch, data packet, firewall, IP header, logical vs. physical addresses, MAC address, TCP/IP |
12 pts |
| 4-4 H | Read Ch 8.2 | Do Exercises 8.1 on paper; show reasoning for network calculations! | 25 pts |
| 4-5 F | Read Ch. 8.3 | Do exercises 8.2 #1-4 | 20 pts |
| 4-8 M | Read Rest of Chapter 8 for this week | 1) Do
all of the Chapter Exercises. 2) Review Chapter terms/ concepts at the end of the chapter. 3) Check the website for Chapter 8 outline & other links before Mon, 4-15-02. |
R |
| 4-9
T through 4-12 F |
No Class due to ISAS festival | See above | X |
| 4-15 M | Chapter 8 Review | Exercise 8.3 gone over | X |
| 4-16 T | Chapter 8 Review | You are responsible for all of the objectives/ concepts on the Chapter 18 outline | X |
| 4- 17 W | Chapter 8 Test | Bring Calculator | 100 pts |
| 4-18 H | Read Ch. 9.1 | Ch. 9 Compression Introduced | X |
| 4-19 F | Read Ch 9.2 & 9.3 | Huffman coding Lab done as excel spreadsheet | 50 pts |
| 4-22 M | Read Ch 9.4 | Do Exercise 9.2 as HW. Ex. 9.1 done in class | |
| 4-23 T | Read Ch. 9.5 | Huffman coding Lab spreadsheet finished for real-life data. Email using standard Lab headings to Mr. Rummel. Include in the main body of the email how this compression technique is used in generating MP3's from uncompressed CD audio. | 50 pts |
| 4-24 W | Exercises 9.3 & 9.4 done | Email to Mr. R | 20 pts |
| 4-25 H | Outline MPEG-1 and .jpg compression methods | Email to Mr. R. You'll be using the additional topics in Chapter 9.5 and these websites to create a 1 page outline on EACH method (2 pages total). | 20 pts |
| 4-29 M | Exercise 11.2 |
Read Ch. 11: 18 pages on
Encryption. HW works with rotational encoders. |
R |
| 4-30 T | Exercise 11.3 |
Visit this encryption intro website.
You will need to print out the six characteristics of an Ideal Cipher. When you go to the index of this site, you can see how the concepts of seed, modulus operation, and pseudo-random generation are defined. |
R |
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| 5-1 W | PGP encryption | Install PGP and create public keys; post to servers | R |
| 5-2 H | No class | Seniors work on Mission Impossible Conceptual Road Rally checkpoints for Final Exam password | |
| 5-3 F | No school | ||
| 5-6 M | Take-home Crypto quiz due | Emailed with spreadsheet attachment back to Mr. R | 60 pts |
| 5-7 T | Finish Reading Chapter 11 | X | |
| 5-8 W | Steganography |
Web Tour of
Stego Sites. Send these written
answers in an email: 1) Define the
practice of steganography |
30 pts |
| 5-9 H | PGP Questions |
1. What is Pretty-Good-Privacy (PGP) and how is
it used for securing email? How does this public key system work? Give a
brief outline. |
20 pts |
| 5-10 F | Take Home Chapter 11 Encryption Test |
1. Follow email
header instructions for the test. 2. Send the test back before Monday, 5-13-02 @ 2:15 pm as both an attachment AND as a PGP 7.0 encrypted email message using my public key posted on the MIT server. > You may get the freeware program from Mr. R for home use or upload via your UCC station. 3. The test is open note, open web, and open reference, but closed to peer discussion. |
100 pts |
| 5-13 M | Encryption
finished No HW |
Cryptograms & Encryption finished | R |
| 5-14 T | Articles on Ultra Wide Band | Ultra Wide Band Web Reading; topic on final exam | R |
| 5-15 W | Senior Final Exam | Must have all M.I. Conceptual Road Rally Review Checkpoints finished to get your login password! | |
| 5-16 H | Ch. 14 "Wireless" Read | Chapter 14: Condensed version | R |
| 5-17 F | No class | No HW | |
| 5-20 M | Exam Review | Exam Study | |
| 5-21 T | Exam Review | Exam Study | |
| 5-22 W | Exam Review | Exam Study | |
| 5-24 F | Final Exam! |
1:30- 3:30 pm in the Great Hall Will need a calculator, # 2 pencils. |
15% of final grade |
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