OBJECTIVE:

This course provides theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience with distributed systems' design and implementation.

TEXT:

Couloris, Dollimore, and Kindberg. Distributed Systems Concepts and Design , Addison-Weley Publishing Company, Reading, Ma., 1994.

INSTRUCTOR:

Dr. Paul Schragger

Phone : (302)631-3237
email: schragpa@sterlingdi.com
Office hours: before and after class and by appointment.
 

GRADE:

Project	100 pts
Class Presentations	100 pts
Class Participation	100 pts
Total	300 pts

GRADING POLICY: on file

Participation:

Participation in the class comes from three sources:

1. Active participation in class  ( 10 pts for each class with 50 max counted toward grade)

2. Submitting URL's for class review (10 pts for each article submitted with a 30 max counted toward grade)

3. Reviewing Articles submitted for class review (10 pts for each submitted html formatted review with a 50 max counted toward grade)

  when a web page shows up for review you may volunteer to review it ( the submitter cannot volunteer).  Up to to reviews for each document will be accepted as receiving credit for the review.

All submissions and volunteering for review must be done via email.  I will send back confirmation of your status as submitter or reviewer.  Please keep the email for future confirmation.

PROJECT:

There will be one project for this course

Project	Define Your Own	100 pts
	Initial Proposal	10 pts
	Software	50 pts
	Final Report	40 pts

  Code must be mostly your own. If you are using anyone else's code, you must document where it is used and who created it.  (Failure to provide this information requires an automatic zero for the project).
Class Presentations:
    Each week a number of students will volunteer to lead discussions.  These discussions will be based on the Assignments in the back of the book or on a topic outside the scope of the current text.  The students can work in groups of two.  However, the groups must not remain the same for more than one presentation.
When preparing for your presentation you will be looking for related topics from the internet.  Please submit the URL's to me via email and I will post them as soon as I get them.  (These count towards class participation).  If the presenters of the week have additional information they wish to cover then they should distribute it to the class the week before.
Some of the presentations will cover student projects.

CLASS SCHEDULE:

STUDENT LIST