Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach

A Top-Down Approach, 6Th Edn

Paperback, 888 pages

Published March 5, 2012 by Pearson India.

ISBN:
978-93-325-8549-2
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3 stars (1 review)

Unique among computer networking texts, the Seventh Edition of the popular Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach builds on the author’s long tradition of teaching this complex subject through a layered approach in a “top-down manner.” The text works its way from the application layer down toward the physical layer, motivating readers by exposing them to important concepts early in their study of networking. Focusing on the Internet and the fundamentally important issues of networking, this text provides an excellent foundation for readers interested in computer science and electrical engineering, without requiring extensive knowledge of programming or mathematics.

1 edition

Verbose, tedious, imprecise

3 stars

Constantly annoyed by the imprecision exhibited by the recent, American-style textbooks, which is more or less a consequence of their trying to be heuristic and friendly, but results in many confusions and their being much too time consuming. This is a paradigmatic text that exhibits this sort of imprecision. Along with imprecision comes verbosity.

Also the textbook is quite a sham because it does too many things so it does nothing really good. It should have been condensed to the first five chapters and the last chapter. 800+ pages and after reading the book you won't know what BGP is, but the book introduces off-topic things such as FTP and VoIP.

I came to realize that while computer networking is neither a hard subject nor a deep subject, it is a tedious subject that deals with shits and bloods of the real-world. Maybe a better way to learn is just …

Subjects

  • Computer Science
  • Computer Network