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All the books are great recommendations, except for Computer Networking (Kurose & Ross). That was the textbook we used when I was in grad school, and it was te
by commandlinefan 7y ago
All the books are great recommendations, except for Computer Networking (Kurose & Ross). That was the textbook we used when I was in grad school, and it was terrible. The best book on networking I’ve ever read was TCP/IP illustrated - it’s a bit out-of-date, but once you read it, you’ll understand the core networking concepts well enough to figure out the current state of modern computer networks.
- mesaframe 7y agoYou said it's terrible but did not state why!
- commandlinefan 7y agoI found it to be too academic, too high-level - and too top down! I had already read TCP/IP illustrated before I took the class, so I had no trouble intuiting what the authors were trying to say, but I was in class with a lot of people who had no real exposure to network concepts outside of surfing the web, and they were all horribly confused by the abstraction in the book. I wouldn’t even say it’s worth coming back to after you’ve read a better networking book: I didn’t learn anything from it that I didn’t already know.
- mesaframe 7y agoOn the other hand I would say, I learned a lot from this book. I too had no exposure to network concepts but after finishing half the book I learned a lot.