ECS 152A, Fall 2001

Information at a glance:

Time/location: TR 1:40p-3:00p, 226 Wellman
Professor: Norman Matloff, 3053 Kemper, 2-1953,
TA: Jian Li
Reader: Navdeep Gill, nsgill@ucdavis.edu
Professor's office hours : TuTh 12:30-1:30
TA's office hours: Monday 1-2:30, Wednesday 3:30-5
Texts: Leon-Garcia and printed lecture notes

The class syllabus.

Newsgroup

My Java Web page

JSim, my Java discrete-event simulation package

My Yacas Web page

My slide-show tutorial on debugging.

Supplementary notes for Leon-Garcia

PDF course materials

Homework assignments.

Reading assignments.

Further information on sockets programming (and networks in general):

Sockets FAQ. (Contains questions ranging from beginning to advanced level.)
Another tutorial.
RPI sockets tutorial. Nicely-written for beginners.
An introduction to TCP/IP, by our very own UCD Chemistry Dept.
Another TCP/IP introduction, at Rutgers.
Berkeley UNIX System Calls and Interprocess Communication , by L. Besaw. For beginners, but assumes good knowledge of Unix, e.g. the term "inode."
The cnet network simulator, very nice though has a learning curve.
http://www.itprc.com (general resources)

Old exams. (Warning: Please note that these old exams are not necessarily "representative," for many reasons, including:

This is not a "calculus class," where one expects certain well-delineated problem types to appear on exams.
Different textbooks might be used each time I teach a course.
I might place different emphases, or assign different homework, or give different supplementary information during lecture.
During an exam I may correct errors, add conditions, clarify phrasing, etc.

In short, the purpose of placing these old exams here is merely to give you an idea of what my exam style is like, rather than to signal what to expect on any given current exam.

Other pages of interest on my Web site:

Beginner's guide to installing and using Linux.
Unix/C tutorials.
The mutt e-mail utility. Don't use pine! It was designed for people who are afraid of computers, not for computer experts.
The elvis text editor. Much better than ordinary vi (and far, FAR better than pico). X11 mouse capability; subwindows (even on nongraphics terminals); infinite undo; paragraph formatting and so on.
My guide to fast debugging!
My Chinese-language software page.