Keith J. O'Hara

teaching

CMSC 327

Distributed Systems

overview | logistics | schedule | announcements | assignments | resources

Class: Monday & Wednesday 1:30pm-2:50pm (RKC 100)
Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 3pm-4pm and by appointment

Textbooks

• Distributed Systems: Priniciples and Paradigms (2nd ed.). Tanenbaum and Van Steen. Prentice Hall. 2006.
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (2nd ed.). Stevens and Rago. Addison-Wesley. 2005.

Grade Breakdown

• Assignments (50%): Programming assignments
• Project (25%): Team project worked on for approximately 1/2 of the term
• Quizzes (15%): Short open-note quizzes given approximately every two weeks
• Presentation (5%): Oral presentation
• Participation (5%): Positive impact on the class

Policies

• Attend class.
• Be on time.
• Participate.
• Come to class prepared. We'll rely on both the textbook and various research papers for this class, make sure to have the required reading done BEFORE class.
• Complete all assignments, and start early.
• Cooperate, but don't copy.
  • Credit work, including all sources you used from the web, other books, etc.
  • Sharing ideas is encouraged, but blatantly copying work without attribution will be treated as scholastic dishonesty and receive no credit.
• Late work will be accepted up to one week late, losing 10% of the total possible credit per day.
• Quizzes can not be taken late without prior special permission.