Course Info

• Course Number: CS291A
• Quarter: Fall 2025

Instructor

• Zach Walker
• email

Dates

Classes

• Mon and Wed
• 1:00pm – 2:50am PT
• Phelps 2510

Office Hours

Initial tasks due before

Wednesday, Oct 1 12pm PT

• Complete the introduction survey
• Join the class on Piazza

Project 1 due before

Wednesday, October 8th 10am PT

Project 2 due before

Wednesday, October 22 10am PT

Class Resources

Piazza: Use to receive class announcements, ask and answer questions, and to communicate with instructor. Access code is available in Google Drive and will be shared in the first class.

GitHub: Contains content for this site. Additionally all student projects will live here.

Textbooks

High Performance Browser Networking
ISBN: 9781449344764
Available online.
Note: The online version is slightly more up-to-date.

The Ruby On Rails Tutorial
Optional Note: This book is only useful once we get to the primary project.