Instructor Information

Class Schedule

Main class

Course Requirements

Prerequisites

• COP 4530 Data Structures, Algorithms, and Generic Programming II
• Students also need to have a user-level knowledge of Unix, and be comfortable working in the Unix environment. All programming assingments will be graded on our department's linprog servers.

Course Website

• http://canvas.fsu.edu/ or http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~xyuan/cop4521

Textbook

• Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards (6th Edition) , William Stallings, 2017
  ISBN-13: 9780134527338
• Python Application Programming, Piyush Kumar and Biswas Parajuli
  ISBN-13:9780998169408
• D. Grossman, "Sophomoric Parallelism and Concurrency," 2012. (An Open Source Textbook)

Course Description

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• Develop applications using Python.
• Explain information management and security computing principles (such as basic computer security concepts, fundamental security design, encryption, message authentication, malicious software, and intruders) and infer how to apply these in the general software application design and development.
• Build software applications that implement information management and security computing design principles using public and symmetric key cryptography, and role-based access control.
• Explain networking and parallel and distributed computing principles and infer how to apply these in the general software application design and development.
• Properly implement networking protocols and parallel and distributed algorithms in applications

Grading Policy

Letter Grade Scale

In addition to the scale listed above, in order to earn a C- or better in the course, you must earn at least 60% in the exams (or 30 points out of the 50 points from the midterm and the final).

Incompletes

• Due to an extended illness or other extraordinary circumstance, and with appropriate documentation, the student is unable to participate in class for a period affecting graded work, such that it is not possible to complete/grade the missing work before end of course.
• The missing work cannot constitute the majority of the work in the course, and the student must already be passing the course in their other coursework, for an incomplete to be considered
• In such a case, arrangements must be made to make up the missed portion of the course prior to the end of the next semester.

Exams

Programming Assignments

• There are tentatively 8 programming assignments of various sizes, they will be weighted differently. Most will be individual assignments with zero, one or two being group assignments.
• Make sure to immediately start working on programming assignments when they are announced. Assignment specifications will be posted on the course web page.
• Please note also that programming is a skill, and PRACTICE is the only way to learn a skill effectively. Please make sure to start assignments early enough to leave yourself time for appropriate practice, as well as testing and debugging!
• Turn in all assignments on time! The ability of complete programming assignments in time is an important capability of a good software engineer. Gaining this ability is a part of the training in this course. Late assignments will be accepted one day after the due date, with the deduction of a letter grade (10%). Assignments more than a day late will not be accepted.
• Programs that do not run to the completion with the intended input on linprog (the machine where your programs will be graded) will receive at most 10% of the total grade for the program. Test your code on linprog to make sure it runs to completion at least for the given testing cases before you submit it!
• Each student is responsible for ensuring that their program files were submitted correctly, and that the correct version was submitted. Double-check before you submit.
• Any concerns or issues regarding the accuracy of grades must be addressed first to the grader of the assignment in question, and also must be brought up within 7 days of the grade being posted

Homework, Surveys, Quizzes, and Exercises

Student Responsibilities

• Students should log on to Canvas at least every other day to check for course updates.
• Students are expected to keep up with the class, engage with the course material, and submit assignments by the due dates.
• Assignments, quizzes, and exams are expected to be products of individual students per the FSU Academic Honor Policy. Students should not discuss any of the questions with each other before or during the actual assignments, activities, quizzes, or exams without instructor approval.
• To receive maximum points for questions, students need to follow the instructions carefully, follow word limits as instructed, and use spell and grammar checking.
• To be successful in this course, students need to complete all required assignments and tests.

Excused Absence Policy

• Excused absences include documented illness, deaths in the family and other documented crises, call to active military duty or jury duty, religious holy days, and official University activities. These absences will be accommodated in a way that does not arbitrarily penalize students who have a valid excuse. Consideration will also be given to students whose dependent children experience serious illness.
• It is the student's responsibility to notify me as soon as possible regarding any excused absences that affect graded work. In the case of quizzes, you need to notify me within 24 hours of any excused absence that causes you to miss a quiz

Miscellaneous Policies

1. The course web page is your friend -- check and refresh it frequently! It will be continually updated with essential course materials, such as assignments, examples, and notes outlines. It will also include other helpful supplements, such as instructions for using the compilers, suggested exercises, and other useful help materials. It is your responsibility to check the web page often for posted materials.
2. Students in the class should have a computer account from the Computer Science Department (sign up for one if you don't already have one), and this can and should be used to store project files and access one of the compilers used in the course.
3. Knowing the contents of this syllabus is each student's responsibility. "I didn't know" in regards to a clearly stated course policy will NOT be considered a valid excuse for anything during the course

Academic Honor Policy:

In addition to this information, please be aware of the following:

• It is NOT APPROPRIATE to utilize websites such as: CHEGG.com, COURSEHERO.com, etc. DO NOT post our assignments to these websites to solicit answers, and DO NOT use/view/utilize the 'solutions' found on these websites. Doing so is in direct violation of the FSU honor policy.
• It is NOT APPROPRIATE to work on assignments with other students or to give or receive solutions to or from anyone before an assignment is due and handed in (by all parties).
• It is NOT APPROPRIATE to share any amount of code with your classmates. When you turn in code with your name on it, you are representing that work as your own. If your submission matches that of another student, this is considered a violation of the Academic Honor Code.
• It is NOT APPROPRIATE to copy/paste, or use any amount of code written by other people from any web sources, forums, etc. as your own solutions.
• It is NOT APPROPRIATE to post your code online. If I find your code online (unapproved online compilers, text sites, blogs, help sites, etc...), no matter what the intent was in posting your code, this is automatically in violation of the Academic Honor Policy and the appropriate actions will be taken. If you are keeping code on sites like GitHub, make sure your code is not searchable and viewable by the public.
• Plagiarism detection tools, such as MOSS, will be used in the grading process.
• A first violation of the honor code will result, at minimum (but not limited to), a penalty of a 0 grade on the assignment or test involved, along with a reduced letter grade in the course.
• If the violation is that of soliciting solutions on external web sites (Chegg, Course Hero, etc), the penalty will be an automatic F in the course, regardless of whether it is a first violation or not
• Any second violation of the honor code will result in a Hearing Referral under FSU Honor Code policies (this is an FSU requirement for any case in which a student has a prior violation in ANY course).
• A second violation in THIS course will result in a Hearing Referral with the proposed minimum sanction of an F in the course

Americans With Disabilities Act

Students with disabilities needing academic accommodation should:
(1) register with and provide documentation to the Student Disability Resource Center; and
(2) bring a letter to the instructor indicating the need for accommodation and what type. This should be done during the first week of class.

This syllabus and other class materials are available in alternative format upon request.

For more information about services available to FSU students with disabilities, contact the:

Student Disability Resource Center
874 Traditions Way
108 Student Services Building
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4167
(850) 644-9566 (voice)
(850) 644-8504 (TDD)
sdrc@admin.fsu.edu
http://www.disabilitycenter.fsu.edu/

Syllabus Changes

Except for changes that substantially affect implementation of the evaluation (grading) statement, this syllabus is a guide for the course and is subject to change with advance notice.