Dear Students,
Your assignment and lab total marks are released. You can check them via webcms -> grades (the button beside your name) -> give (login with your zID), and then you will see the "assign" and "LabTotal" fields.
If you have any issues with those marks, please email our course email (cs3331@cse.unsw.edu.au) or directly email your allocated tutor.
Good luck!
The final exam is only 2 days away. It will start at 1:45pm on Monday 21 August within the Inspera platform .
An important reminder:
please be aware that you won't have the opportunity to engage with your lecturer or tutor throughout the examination period. Should any concerns arise during the exam, it will be necessary for you to reach out to the designated exam authority using the contact information provided to you on Inspera on the respective day.
The Ed forum will be switched to the
Read
Only
mode from Monday.
Here are a few pieces of advice, even if they may seem rather obvious:
Good luck, everyone!
The current rate of completion is only 40%. Thank you very much to those who have completed the survey.
Those who are yet to complete the survey, please spare a few minutes and complete them ASAP before it closes in 48 hours (10 August is the last day to complete). Your input is highly valued and appreciated.
Mahbub
Your Lecturer
Great news! We have successfully concluded all the lectures for this term! Additionally, we have released detailed information about the final exam, including a set of sample questions and solutions.
However, the disappointing news is that the completion rate for the MyExperience surveys is currently only at 30%. To all students, I strongly urge you to take just 10 minutes of your time and complete the survey as soon as possible. The final deadline for submission is 10 August, which means there are only 5 days left.
While preparing for the final exam, please make use of the Ed forum, where you can find valuable resources and discussions. Moreover, feel free to attend any of the online consultation sessions that will be conducted by the lecturer in the next two weeks.
Wishing you the best in your preparations for the final exam!
I would like to extend my thanks to those who have already completed their MyExperience survey. However, I must mention that the current completion rate stands at only 12%. Therefore, I encourage each and every one of you to take a few moments and complete the survey as soon as possible. Your input, especially the written feedback, is invaluable for us to reflect on our teaching methods and make further improvements.
Moving on to our academic progress, we have successfully completed Week 9, and the assignment deadline has now passed. I am pleased to note that most of you managed to submit your assignments on time, and I hope you enjoyed the hands-on experience of engaging in practical work. Our team will work diligently to complete the marking process by the end of Week 10.
As we enter the final week of this term, Week 10, we will cover the topic of Wireless Networking. The lecture notes are already available on WebCMS for your reference.
Additionally, during Week 10, I will take some time to recap the course and discuss important details regarding the final exam. I want to inform you that the final exam will be administered in the Inspera platform online, in remote mode (without invigilation), and will be an open book exam. In preparation for the final exam, I plan to open a few special consultation hours, providing an opportunity for anyone to discuss any matters related to the exam. More specific details about the final exam and the consultation hours will be released in the coming week.
I hope you all have an enjoyable remainder of the weekend, and I look forward to meeting you in the upcoming lecture on Monday.
Dear Students,
Update: We have fixed the disk quota issue, and now you can submit your Lab5. The deadline is extended to Thursday 10am.
We have received numerous emails regarding issues with the submission of Lab5, apparently caused by exceeded disk quota. To accommodate for this inconvenience, we grant all students a 48-hour extension for Lab5.
We are currently working diligently to rectify this issue and it may take some time. We greatly appreciate your patience and understanding in this matter. Thank you.
Thanks to all of you who have completed myExperience so far. If you haven’t yet participated, you can find the myExperience link on your Moodle course page or look for the link in your student email.
Your honest and constructive thoughts are valued, and help not only students taking this course, but myself and teaching staff across UNSW to create positive changes in their courses moving forward. Your thoughts also make a difference for the next group of students taking these courses, just as thoughts from students taking courses you plan to take make a difference for you.
Please know that myExperience is confidential and your identity is not included in reports. Results of the survey are not made available until your course results are released.
1. Mid-term results are out. Your marks and the correct answers are available from Inspera.
The average mark was 12.61/20 .
Shoutouts for Excellent Performance:
Stephen Bletsas: 19.5
Tina Soodi Shoar, Derek Xu, Moru Zhang, Yanlin Chen, Wendi Tang: 19
Jian Yao, Jack Li, David Ho, Jiaqi Hu, Cheng Li, Liangyu Ding, Blake Morris, Raymond Pham: 18.5
2. Assignment is due in one week (28 July). We have Python/Java/C consultation sessions available until Week 9. If you are struggling with it, you are most welcome to attend the consultations and discuss any questions/confusions you have with our tutors. You are also welcome to make use of the vibrant Ed forum discussions (I can see many of you already making good use of it).
3. We have completed one more layer, the Network Layer, this week. We are ready to start the last remaining layer, the Data Link Layer, next week. The lecture notes for next week are already available in WebCMS for those wanting to read ahead of the lecture.
Have a good weekend and hope to see you in the lecture on Monday.
Dear Students,
We have released the results of your Midterm exam. You can find the Midterm exam grades from Moodle, and via the Inspera link you can check your Midterm grade report.
We also provide the solution for the Midterm exam, and you can also find it in the Inspera link.
If you have any questions please email us via course email: cs3331@cse.unsw.edu.au
1. Midterm Exam is over!!
2. We are delighted to note that 98% of the students successfully completed their exams and submitted their work on Inspera without encountering major technical issues. The marking process for your submissions has commenced, and we anticipate completing it by next week. At that time, we will also release the marks and provide solutions to all the questions.
2. While we were not able to deliver in-person lecture on Monday due to mid-term exam, a video recording explaining the contents of the Monday lecture were released in WebCMS during Week 6 for you to catch up.
3. We have commenced our study of the Data Link Layer this week and will continue our exploration of this topic throughout the remainder of this week and the following week.
See you shortly in the person lecture. Take care.
With the mid-term exam approaching in just a few hours, I want to wish everyone the best of luck. The exam will be accessible online through the Inspera platform, and you can find the link on your Moodle page. Please note that all relevant information regarding the exam has already been shared in previous messages. It is crucial to take the exam on time as there will be no additional opportunities for those who miss it. I shall be monitoring the Zoom chat during the exam to address any emergency issues that may arise.
Dear Students,
We have released the Assignment Long Version and required resources, you can find it from the webcms: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP3331/23T2/reso...
We also arranged the assignment consultation to support your assignment from week 7 - week 9, all the sessions are online and you can find details at https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP3331/23T2/reso...
If you have any questions regarding the assignment you are very welcome to post them on the forum or take them to the assignment weekly consultations.
The lecturer (Mahbub Hassan) will offer the following consultation hours over Zoom to answer any questions or confusions you may have while preparing for the mid-term exam:
9:30am - 10:30am, Friday, 07 July
12 noon - 1pm, Friday, 07 July
Zoom link: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/82121803792?pwd=eW13U2V1eDV...
(Password: 989676)
Please come prepared with your questions.
We have released all relevant information regarding your upcoming Mid-term exam (10am, 10th of July) along with a sample test here .
You are strongly encouraged to take the sample test to familiarise yourself with the Inspera platform and the type of questions expected in the mid-term exam.
Please discuss any issues in the Ed forum.The link for the actual mid-term exam will be announced next week.
Welcome to Week-5. Our target is to complete the transport layer during this week.
Note that there will be no lecture and labs in Week 6, which will give you a good opportunity to prepare for the mid-term exam.
The mid-term exam will take place during the Monday lecture time in Week 7 (no in-person lecture at that time, but a video recording will be released later). The mid-term exam will be based on topics covered from Week 1 to Week 5. More details about the mid-term exam will be announced later in this week.
We are fine tuning a few details for the longer version of the assignment specs and we will try to release it soon.
See you in the lecture in a few minutes.
Several announcements for Week 4:
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and see you in lectures tomorrow
An overview of the assignment has been released along with a short video explaining it (Under the Assignment tab in WebCMS)
Click here for overview document and the video.
You are encouraged to discuss any issues in ED (under the Assignment tab)
As we know, Monday was a public holiday and hence we didn't have the in-person lecture. However, I've personally recorded a lecture for you, which is a Zoom recording available from WebCMS under Week-3, or from here .
The lecture notes were also simplified and updated this morning in WebCMS, so if you may want to have a look at the contents again.
Hope to see you in-person tomorrow (Thursday lecture).
The long weekend is over:( We will start week-3 from tomorrow (Tuesday).
Your Lab-1 submission is due 10am tomorrow (13 June). Make sure you submit on time to avoid any penalties.
In Week-3, we shall try to cover DNS, Peer-to-peer Networking, Content Distribution Networks, and the concepts of Socket Programming. All
lecture notes for this week
is available for your review from WebCMS.
Since we missed the lecture on Monday due to public holiday, I shall try to record a lecture to cover the contents of Monday's lecture and release the video by Wednesday this week. The recording will be available under Week-3 lecture page in WebCMS. Please check that space on Thursday morning.
Wish you a short but productive week-3.
Dear Students,
Next Monday will be a public holiday, we decided to move all the next Monday labs to Tuesday same time online. This is only relevant for next Monday's lab students.
Below are the adjustments and links. Enjoy your long weekend.
| Original Monday Labs during Week 3 | Temporary Adjustments (Online) |
| M12A, Wei Song | Tue 12A, link: https://unsw.zoom.us/my/weisonglabs |
| M14A, Wei Song | Tue 14A, link: https://unsw.zoom.us/my/weisonglabs |
| M16A, Wei Song | Tue 16A, link: https://unsw.zoom.us/my/weisonglabs |
| M18A, Wei Song | Tue 18A, link: https://unsw.zoom.us/my/weisonglabs |
| M12B, Gary Hu | Tue 12B, link: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/4245058685 |
| M14B, Ayda Valinezhad Orang | Tue 14B, link: Teams Link |
| M16B, Jamin Chen | Tue 16B, link: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/5738629711 |
| M18B, Jamin Chen | Tue 18B, link: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/5738629711 |
Great to have completed the first week of the term. We are about to start Week 2 and would like to remind you of few things:
Labs will start from this week. Make sure you attend the correct lab, the lab slot you are enrolled in, and establish a line of communication with your tutor. Stay in touch with your tutor throughout the term regarding all your labs.
In Week-2 lectures, we will learn the famous layering concept and the layering architecture that underpin computer networking and the Internet. We will make a start with the Application Layer and try to cover HTTP and Email in this week.
You are highly encouraged to attend the lectures in-person and shape the interactions and engagements that go on in such face-to-face teaching. In case you miss the in-person lectures, video recordings of lectures are available from Echo360 but you will have to be logged into Moodle to access them. We are also trying to get the Youtube channel going so you can soon access the lectures directly from Youtube.
We are developing the assignment specs for you, which is expected to be released later next week.
It's great to see that many of you are already using the Ed forum. Those not sure how to access the forum, please remember that must join the forum first via the following link: https://edstem.org/au/<wbr>join/XHBJMt
Looking forward to see you in the lecture shortly.
Welcome to COMP3331/9331, Term 2, 2023 . The course webpage is at www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs3331
The course is being offered in a hybrid mode, i.e., a mix of in-person and on-line activities. All lectures will be in-person, face-to-face. Most labs are in-person, supplemented with a few online labs. The exams will be held online and shall use the Inspera exam environment.
Please check your enrolment and attend the appropriate lab class. If you have enrolment issues, then please get in touch with the Nucleus Student Hub . The course staff do not have access to the enrolment system.
Please read the course outline carefully .
Our first lecture will be held on Monday, 29 May, from 10am-12noon in Colombo Theatre B (UNSW Kensington Campus).
All content for Week 1 is now available on the Lectures page.
Labs will commence in Week 2, even if your timetable indicates that they start in Week 1. Details are on the Labs page.
We will be using Ed Discussions for the course forum. Please join via this link . The forums on both WebCMS and Moodle are disabled.
Looking forward to seeing you on Monday.