The professor who created the lecture videos is no longer at Georgia Tech, so I felt a disconnect between the projects and the lectures. Though I had studied Networking in my Under Graduation, its been more than 10 years. You could easily pair this with another class. I took this class my first semester in the program, alongside operating systems. I did learn stuff, but this didnt seem like a grad-level course. A large portion of your time will be spent trying to figure out semantics of obscure test questions, troubleshooting faulty project templates, and arguing with instructors. For instance, ask whether the quizzes have helped in learning the material on some scale. One probably has to have an intermediate knowledge of Python at least and then some networking background. WTF? The exam guides are great and if you go through and answer each question and then go back over the answers a couple times, then you should get fairly high exam marks. I would recommend it as a good first course to take. However, I still liked the course very much as it did a solid job of giving me a thorough understanding of computer networks. If youre the one left out, your grade will be impacted. This was my first course in the program, and so I wasnt sure what to expect. Let me just start of with the most recent impression the last project sucks. The most complex code youll write is a loop. Having basic Python knowledge is recommended. For example, exam 3 had 20 questions, 2 of which were on CBR vs VBR; not networking. If you have done no programming - I would recommend a Python/OOP course before you start as that will make things a lot smoother for you with the coding projects. Theyre not very difficult. Lectures - some complain about them, but I think they set a nice standard, b/c theyre text-based. The lectures are as dry as the Sahara. This is an easy course even though the projects have been updated. Lectures: The lectures were much shorter than the other courses Ive taken (ESO, SAT, HPCA, IOS), and they werent always clear, but the material is very interesting for someone like me who has very little networking experience. This wasted me a lot of time on one project in particular, which was pretty annoying. Other than this though, the information was helpful and thorough. The TA team had a great hand in this experience. There arent videos for most of them, so its just reading off the screen. A great deal of the frustration youll get is to understand the python mininet API framework, which is the center piece of every assignment but none of the lecture video cover the framework at all. END-OF-LIFEd. Syllabus says last submitted assignment will be picked after deadline, but gradescope lets you pick the one you want to submit, but this does not apply for assignments that have to be submitted on canvas. Project #2 (Distance Vector): A project that requires you to implement the Distance Vector (DV) Routing Protocol from (relative) scratch. I hope they update the documentation a little to clarify a few simple yet crucial items required for the project that SHOULD be clarified. Tests contained content only BRIEFLY touched on in lecture videos (7 projects, 3 exams). I guess the classes were too big? I feel for the TAs - it seems like there has been ZERO involvement from the professor of record now that hes moved on to Princeton. Also required loading. Some say they have a non-cs background and its easy, youll still end up spending a lot of time on it. You need to have at least some basic knowledge about computer network python programming. If you have any issues or suggestions to make, feel free to: This repository has been archived by the owner. I took this as my second course for the foundational requirements. I took this course, because this review site listed it as an easy course. AFAIK there is no professor supervising the TAs and there has been some snark on Piazza between the students and the TAs. Usually just a weekend worth of studying needed before the exam. Please avoid this class - it is an absolute disgrace in any computer science curriculum Dont recommend. I suspect it is in the prototyping phase, as the project lacked the same support and transparency as the other projects. You also have to implement the logic based on what is taught which is not easy by any means. For this reason Im rating it Neutral instead of Liked, since I cant bring myself to say I liked anything about the last project or the TAs that handled the last project. Overall, easy A. Extremely disorganized class and an embarassment to this program, as documented above. The videos were not that bad, and youll have to read 10 to 14 papers in total to be able to do the projects and for the tests. For a class that is at least part of the Cybersecurity degree. Like, absolutely god awful. I studied for about 2 hours for the second exam, received an 80%, and about 5 hrs for the first exam, and received an 90%. It helped me develop a good understanding of networking and I thought Prof Lillethun and the TAs did a really good job. Dont gamble on choices that you arent sure of. Watch the office hours, or you wont be able to answer the projects. Overall, good class and wonderful TAs the class would have been a disaster without them. Staring at the wall is better than taking this course, =======Audience======= I earned an A in this course even without the extra credit so Im confident the vast majority of students would be able to given enough time to figure out the harder projects. Expect to spend a lot of time on the earlier projects, and get bored with the middle of the course projects, and then pick back up again a bit for the end of the semester. It is pretty above board and honest. This was my first course along with HCI, which paired OK together since this course was more front-loaded and HCI was more back-loaded in terms of workload. That being said, I have a good foundation now to go back and do further review on these concepts and put some more time into it. As an aside, this class has an optional textbook that is meant to supplement the lecture content. Took as my first course and would not recommend as such. Definitely need to be comfortable with Python and programming in general. Each assignment is 1/2 coding & simulation, and 1/2 quiz. Theres no autograder for most, but its still possible to get 100% by just watching the video and following instructions. I took this course because I was anticipating a very challenging Fall at work. Currently 108 new threads on ed for the final assignment alone. And each of the assignments are not more than 25 to 50 lines. Big shout out to TAs (esp. Instead, there is a text section for the slides with generally a reference to the relevant section of the book (Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, Kurose and Ross, 7th ed). The projects and reading was interesting and I learned a lot. Overall, if you dont know much about computer networks going into this, youll come out with a much better understanding assuming you put in the work. Project-driven learning. This course was very easy if you know a bit of python. The first two assignments, Spanning Tree and Distance Vector, were very straightforward and easy enough to figure out with all the resources available and test suites posted by students and TAs. Meaning, lecture material directly carries over into quizzes, assignments, and exams; there arent many surprises or tangents. This class doesnt have a huge amount of content, is farily straight forward and is possibly the easiest class offered. Participation from peers on Piazza was the best part of the course. In the second project i suffered from a small bug that really affected my grade. 50 points (the overall is not very harmonious, but it should not be a big problem to buy it as a joke) I think the projects are well designed. With some exceptions, Piazza discussions were not great and TA responses were often no more than a couple of words. I am going to end the course with a B because I am having immense trouble studying for the exams. This might be OK in another class, but it meant that we didnt get any of the open-ended, research-oriented interaction promised in the syllabus. Project 3 was incredibly boring and tedious, requiring you to build 50 firewall rules. I paired this class with AI4R/RAIT. A lot of people say projects 2 and 3 are really hard. I am very disappointed with the material quality and project depth of this course. This might be a negative for most though, depending on how you I have never seen a format that is so disengaging in my life. The python programming itself was not difficult, but you did have to spend time understanding the concepts and the other code with which you were interfacing. Some were interesting, like the Google TCP Fast-Open and the Jellyfish Data Center papers. Projects: Ordinary It really is just too much for a short summer class. If you are unfamiliar with networking, or if you want an easy course, this is the one to take. Will require extremely short bits of programming with likely unfamiliar domain specific commands. What is seemingly an easy assignment turned out to be much more of a headache. You dont really need a background in Networking to jump into it. A fun class where you will learn and enjoy networks. The projects were occasionally a bit trivial but gave some programming practice in Python and helped to give a few concepts the depth of understanding that they deserve. Many people do not like content being delivered like a self-reading and the lecture video is actually reading the script for you, but I found it okay, asI do not watch the lecture video at all. Search for jobs related to Cs6250 gatech github or hire on the world's largest freelancing marketplace with 21m+ jobs. There was no attempt to repair the course that clearly got off to a rough start. They are sufficient to understand the concept. I enjoyed taking this course. No answer. So, this course refreshed my knowledge on Networking. The questions are not too different from the quizzes, and you have sufficient time to finish them. The lectures have continued to be good, but the rest of the class experience has been a disappointment. People make it sound bad with the number of rules to write, in my opinion it goes very fast if you just implement the rules literally as they are laid out. There are 2 closed-book proctored tests involving a plethora of multiple choice, descriptive-types, and problem-types questions. Grade Breakdown: What you get out of this class depends on what you put into it, and this means reading the referenced papers, watching the videos, and reviewing all of the mininet programming (not just what youre assigned to work on). To get A, secure full score for projects (60 points). There was a mid term and final. If you are intent on thoroughly learning the material presented in this course, beware: Your grade (especially your test grades) may not reflect your knowledge. In this course, I did not mind it as much (probably because I had the relevant context + background). Some projects are fun and interesting (you need to know Python in advance, though) but some just require you to do some experiment and report your observation under unstable VM environment which is bit tough. 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