Peter Budny's TA page

Not much here yet, but this will be the place to check for any information you need regarding classes I'm TAing.

Office Hours

• Tuesdays, 10–11
• Wednesdays, 10–11

For now, office hours are in CCB commons.

If you want to meet with me outside of office hours, that's cool, just check my schedule.

Computing Resources

Keep in mind that you must run experiments as part of the projects, and it is difficult to get convincing results on a machine that has multiple users on it.

• General-access servers
  • helsinki (Linux), lennon (Solaris), etc.
  • These remote-access machines can be used by anybody, and usually have 20+ users on them. Fine for editing code, not good for running experiments.
• Labs
  • States lab (CCB 103), Mac lab (107), Thin Client lab (153) (map)
  • These machines offer both in-person and remote access. The States lab are dual-boot Windows/Linux; when in Linux they have -lnx appended to the hostname.
  • Good for running experiments; you can sit down in front of two or three machines and claim them for your own use.
• Warp cluster
  • warp1 – warp14
  • These are remote-only machines that have been dedicated to this class. They are fast and powerful, and will not have other users on them.
  • NOTE: You must be sure to kill any processes before logging out of these machines! Not doing so is quite rude.

Socket Programming

If you've never done any network programming before, don't despair! It's really very easy. Most of the code follows a fixed formula, so it's almost a copy-and-paste job.

I highly recommend the Pocket Sockets book (TCP/IP Sockets in C: Practical Guide for Programmers). It shows you how to write a basic server and client, which you can easily extend into anything else. I'll have my copy on me during office hours for your edification. :-)