Structure // Grading policy // Class meetings // Staff // Office Hours // Acknowledgements // Useful Books
6.824 is a core graduate subject with lectures, labs, quizzes, and a final project. 6.824 is 12 units. 6 EDPs.
Lectures are Tue/Thu 1:00pm to 2:30pm in 32-144. Most class meetings will be one half lecture and one half paper discussion. You should read the paper before coming to class, and be prepared to discuss it. You can find out what paper to read for each meeting in the schedule.
We will post a question about each paper 24 hours before we discuss the paper. Please bring your answer to class on a sheet of paper and hand it in. Your answer need only be long enough to demonstrate that you understand the paper; a paragraph or two will usually be enough. We won't hand back the questions, but we will glance at them to make sure your answer makes sense, and they will count for part of the paper discussion grade.
6.824 will have two quizzes: one given during class in the middle of the term, and one during finals week.
There are programming labs due every week or two throughout the term.
At the end of the term you'll undertake a small project extending the lab programming assignments in a manner of your choice in small teams of at most 2 people. Each team will design and implement an extension of its choice. Each team will also submit a one page description about its project and present a demo.
Note that the labs and project are mandatory; if you do not hand all of them in by the last day of classes, you will receive an F regardless of your performance in other areas.
You must write all the code you hand in for the programming assignments, except for code that we give you as part of the assigment. You are not allowed to look at anyone else's solution (and you're not allowed to look at solutions from previous years). You may discuss the assignments with other students, but you may not look at or use each other's code.
You may discuss the questions for each discussion paper with other students, but you may not look at other students' answers. You must write your answers yourself.
Please use the mailing list (6.824-staff@pdos.csail.mit.edu) to send questions or comments about the course to the staff.
| Lecturer Frans Kaashoek |
32-G992 | 3-7149 | kaashoek@csail.mit.edu |
| Teaching assistant Alex Pesterev |
32-G980 | 3-5261 | alekseyp@mit.edu |
| Course secretary Neena Lyall |
32-G970A | 3-6019 | lyall@csail.mit.edu
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Office hours are on Thursdays from 4–5:00pm or by appointment. They will be held in the 32-G9 Common Lounge.
The course material is based on early instances of 6.824 taught by Robert Morris. Jinyang Li (NYU) and Jeremey Stribling (MIT) were instrumental in developing the present labs.
The C++ Programming Language. Bjarne Stroustrup. Addison Wesley.
Questions or comments regarding 6.824? Send e-mail to 6.824-staff@pdos.csail.mit.edu.
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