COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: NETWORK PROGRAMMING

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
CEN 461	B	99	3	2	0	4	7.5

Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature)	NA
Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	Julian Hoxha
Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours:	NA
Language:	English
Compulsory/Elective:	Elective
Classroom and Meeting Time:
Course Description:	Introduction to networking and Internet protocols via programming and hands-on labs. TCP/IP protocol architecture; user datagram protocol (UDP); multicasting; transmission control protocol (TCP); standard Internet services, and protocol usage by common Internet applications.
Course Objectives:	Covers application layer protocol and how applications use the transport layer; principles and practice of network programming; the client-server model; concurrent processing; introduction to sockets and related functions client and server software design with examples; principles, issues and challenges in e-mail and web application protocols; security protocols; and network life system concepts. Exposes students to UNIX/Linux systems and network programming with an emphasis on practical programming problems and experience. Help students prepare for future programming careers by exposing them to Python. Knowledge of concepts related to networking, low level (sockets based) network programming, as well as a variety of web programming concepts. Strong programming skills, specifically in the development of sockets based network programs. Introduce students to concurrent programming models that are used for building scalable servers, including an emphasis on synchronization of threads and processes.

COURSE OUTLINE

Week	Topics
1	Introduction to networking programming.
2	Introduction to Python.
3	Installing python,Scope and uses of python, Accessing python interpreter,importing modules and getting helps, Basic data types: number, string, list, tuple, dictionary and sets. Python input and output.
4	Decision making and looping in Python(if, elif, else, while, for). Functions, class and object, Exception handling, Files and Directories; reading and writing text files, creating and removing directories.
5	Internet architecture, application programming interface (API), Network addressing, Standard ports, UNIX Networking Commands.
6	Introduction to sockets.
7	TCP echoserver and TCP echoclient.
8	Python and the web.
9	some popular python modules: smtplib, httplib, poplib.
10	Retrieving web pages with http, Parsing HTML data.
11	XML and XMLRPC.
12	Electronic mail; sending mail.
13	Developing Network server program.
14	Database programming.

Prerequisite(s):
Textbook:	Foundations of Python Network Programming, by JOHN GOERZEN. James Kurose and Keith Ross. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet.
Other References:	Beginning Python, by James Payne. Learning Python, by David Ascher.
Laboratory Work:
Computer Usage:
Others:	No

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	Provide students with a thorough introduction to a variety of important principles in networking, with a strong focus on the Internet.
2	Provide a strong foundation in sending and receiving data between processes in the UNIX and Internet domains.
3	Provide an introduction to writing programs using the socket interface.
4	Provide an introduction to the TCP/IP client-server model of interaction, and to writing networking applications using the client/server technology, and an introduction to writing secure software.

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES (Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)

No	Program Competencies	Cont.
Professional Master in Computer Engineering Program

COURSE EVALUATION METHOD

Method	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm Exam(s)	1	30
Project	1	30
Final Exam	1	40
	Total Percent:	100%

ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)

Activities	Quantity	Duration(Hours)	Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	4	64
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	12	4	48
Mid-terms	1	25	25
Assignments	1	25.5	25.5
Final examination	1	25	25
Other			0
Total Work Load:			187.5
Total Work Load/25(h):			7.5
ECTS Credit of the Course:			7.5