Before each lecture, a reading list will be assigned and all
registered students should read the assigned material and email a list
of critical questions about the material to the instructor,
before the lecture. Download the class lecture notes here: You should ask anything that you feel needs better explanation. It
is impossible that you will find everything clear in the assigned
material and careful reading and thinking about the material will
surely lead to some doubts and questions. A tyical mistake students do goes like this: I did not submit
any reading assignments because most of the time I could either
comprehend things or I would research the Web to understand
them. Even if you find your answer to your doubts on the Web, please
email the questions and where you found the answer (give the
exact URL, not just top-level domain name). Because questions represent a significant component of the grade, the students are highly
encouraged to send in their questions on time. We may also select some interesting questions to post
(anonymized) on this webpage.
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Homework Reading Assignments and Questions
Email your questions as plain text (do not send attachments),
unless you need to attach an image or a diagram.
http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~marsic/books/QoS/
Also, if a statement or diagram appears to be incorrect, or
conflicting with another statement or diagram—that is also a
good question to ask.
Just ask about any doubt
that you encounter.
The purpose of the reading assignments is twofold: (1) for students to
master the course material and (2) for instructor to know that
students worked on the assignment. Therefore, if you don't submit any
reading assignments, then the instructor does not know
whether or not you did them.
Students who invest extra effort and offer answers to their own
questions by consulting other sources (e.g., search the Web or check
other books) will receive double credit.
In this case, the source should be credited, by citing the URL or book
name.
Because of high
volume, we cannot guarantee to answer each question individually, but
we guarantee to read all your emails and keep track of who is asking
questions and about the quality of their questions for grading
purposes.
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Ivan Marsic
Wed Feb 4 16:37:08 EST 2009