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Last Day of HON - Keep healthy
Written: 12.03.2020 16:35
Written By: Andreas Schmidt
Dear HON students,
as you might have heard from the news, we are now living close to a high risk region for the Corona virus and University is already taking first actions (e.g. disallowing employees from France to come to work,). As we all take health serious and want to protect people from getting infected and spreading the disease, we want to continue with HON as follows:
We switch the units for tomorrow, Fr 13.03.2020 to online-only, so we will not teach the lectures and not actively motivate you to sit together for doing tutorials. First, let us talk about some general things to consider and later about some unit-specific ones:
General:
- First of all, please don't be afraid or panick. What we are doing here is a precaution and attempt to slow down the spreading to avoid this thing hitting the weak in our society.
- Please don't hesitate to send us an email if you have any problems with our course material. We would do our best to reply individually, but if it turns out that many people ask similar questions and need help we will consider setting up other means (e.g. curating a FAQ).
- Make sure that your LabVM is working and that you have a well-known environment to do the practical projects in.
- Materials are going to be published in accordance to the schedule, so you can "join" the course tomorrow as usual, but (maybe) from home.
- Regarding the exam and the exam Q&A, please stay tuned. As the situation is that dynamic at the moment we have to see and adapt.
Units:
- U25 applies the concepts of U24 (multimedia communications) and is a pure pen-and-paper exercise, for which we don't think personal presence is required. If you have problems, just tell us.
- U26 is a lecture on Software-Defined Networking. While this is an extremely relevant topic in practice, it is advanced to an extent that we don't ask questions about it in the exam. Still, we will upload the slides and cordially invite you to have a look at it.
- U27 is a unit that applies Software-Defined Networking in practice, so it is highly recommended to improve your understanding of the topic.
- U28 is the course wrap-up that primarily gives information on how the course progresses (exam, etc.) but also highlights some opportunities for you (vacant student researcher jobs as well as potential topics for theses).
Projects:
- The projects will be released tomorrow and include a self-explaining text that has already been tested by HON iterations that happened before. Still, you might have questions and we are happy to answer the via email (or FAQ, see above).
Best regards and stay well
The HON20-Team