This
is the home page of the cnds@napier module. The module is currently going
into its 8th week (in the UK), and the 2nd week in Malaysia. The focus of the
module is now on the Week 10 test (and Week 6 test for Malaysia). Just a quick
note to say that Napier has just gained an EXCELLENT in the general area
of Computing by the Times.
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The
CNDS module has now run in its current form for several years. If there is something
from the past you would like
to access you can find it in some of the links given below. The module has been
continually refined over the years, and tries to give everyone who takes the module
the same experience, no matter if they study it in Edinburgh or Malaysia. NOTE:
These pages are undergoing a major change so many of them will have incomplete
links, and inconsistent.
This
year I included on-line lectures, which are text version of the lecture I would
give within the lecture schedule. These have provided a great success, and allow
students the opportunity to carefully review the presented material.
The
module contains a teaching pack which should be hand-out at the start of the year.
This pack should contain the main material, presentation slides and multiple choice
questions. Most of the material for the module is contained in the Module Organiser,
but the following quick a few quick links:
An
important concept in networking and the Internet is the client/server architecture,
thus I've developed a few programs which allows client/server systems to be investigated.
The module investigate implementations of TCP/IP sockets, especially using Visual
Basic. Another important element is the investigation of session layer protocols,
such as HTTP, FTP and SMTP. The main code links are:
Napier: 
An
important concept in networking and the Internet is the client/server architecture,
thus I've developed a few programs which allows client/server systems to be investigated.
The module investigate implementations of TCP/IP sockets, especially using Visual
Basic. Another important element is the investigation of session layer protocols,
such as HTTP, FTP and SMTP. The main code links are: