Links

Admin

• CS 455 Mailing List
• Blackboard
  • Submitting Assignments via Blackboard
• CS Dept Systems Group (Unix account questions)
  • create CS account
  • FAQ (lab hours, machine names, create CS account)
  • overview of CS Unix services
• Chegg - rent textbooks for a semester
• Printing Lecture Notes
• Office of Student Conduct and Academic Integrity

Unix Links

• Opening X Windows Remotely
• Using PuTTY to login to ODU-CS Unix machines
• Intro to Unix (Dr. Zeil's CS 252)
• Unix/C/HTML Useful Links
• Emacs Tutorial

Video Notes and Applets

• Chapter 1
  • Propagation Delay and Transmission Delay video (14:39)
  • traceroute video (5:24)
  • Queuing and Loss applet
• Chapter 2
  • HTTP Delay Estimation applet
• Chapter 3
  • Go-Back-N applet
  • Selective Repeat applet
  • TCP Congestion Control video note
• Chapter 4
  • IP Fragmentation applet
  • Dijkstra's Algorithm video note

Networking Links

• Computer Networking, Kurose and Ross (textbook authors' website)
  • Textbook applets
  • Textbook video notes
  • Textbook website
• Sockets in Java Tutorial
• You Don't Know Jack About Network Performance
• Server Attention Span - XKCD comic
• DNS calculator
• Wireshark
  • Wireshark Sample Captures
  • HTTP captures
• Dijkstra's Algorithm animated gif

Tools

• Speed Test - bandwidth test
• DNS stuff - web-based networking tools
• whatmask - CIDR/netmask tool
• traceroute.org

Programming Links

Java

• Java Tutorials
• Java Class Reference
  • String Class
• Intro to Java (Dr. Zeil's CS 382)

Python

• Official Python Website
• Python Library Reference
  • String methods
  • Socket methods
• Tutorials
  • official tutorial
  • Python Tutor - visualize code
  • Dive into Python
  • Try Python - interactive tutorial
  • Learn Python - another interactive tutorial

Professional Communication

• How to Email a Professor
• How to Talk to a Professor