Internet Book, The:Everything You Need to Know About Computer Networking and How the Internet Works: Everything You Need to Know About Computer Networking and How the Internet Works

Internet Book, The:Everything You Need to Know About Computer Networking and How the Internet Works: Everything You Need to Know About Computer Networking and How the Internet Works

by Douglas E . Comer (Author)

Synopsis

For use as a primary text for courses on using the Internet or as a supplement for computer literacy courses that cover networking or the Internet.

Doug Comer's, The Internet Book, Third Edition utilizes a non-technical perspective to explain the technology of how computers communicate, what the Internet is, how the Internet works, and what the Internet can do for people. This book works to fully connect students to the big picture by presenting a solid overview of networking and the Internet, rather than burying them with details. Comer assumes no prior background in computer networking or the Internet.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 351
Edition: 3
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Published: 30 Mar 2000

ISBN 10: 0130308528
ISBN 13: 9780130308528

Author Bio

DOUGLAS COMER is a professor at Purdue University where he teaches popular computer networking courses. He also teaches hundreds of professionals and diverse audiences around the world each year about he Internet. He has written a widely acclaimed and extremely popular series of books on networking and the Internet. He was one of the researchers who contributed to the formation of the Internet in the late 1970s and 1980s. He has served on the Internet Architecture Board, the group responsible for guiding development of the Internet, and is a Fellow of the ACM. He wrote this book in response to everyone who has asked him for an explanation of the Internet that is both technically correct and easily understood.