[HN Gopher] Show HN: I'm Writing a Free Book Called Computer Net... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: I'm Writing a Free Book Called Computer Networks from Scratch Author : sarchertech Score : 32 points Date : 2022-03-27 21:32 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.networksfromscratch.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.networksfromscratch.com) | musicale wrote: | Peterson and Davie's _Computer Networks: A Systems Approach_ is | also free: | | https://book.systemsapproach.org | LAC-Tech wrote: | _The answers I get have taught me that most programmers don 't | have a basic understanding of how the internet works outside of | their narrow specialty._ | | I'm definitely a bit guilty of this. | | OP do you plan to cover stuff used in IOT? Treating HTTP as a | magic black box kind of works fine until you have to consider | MQTT, COAP etc. | freedomben wrote: | Wow really neat, nice work! I also love the "read on the web for | free, buy a print/pdf copy" model. I rarely buy books now without | being able to sample them first. I like your writing style, and I | think it's well on the way to being a great book. | | It might be a little early to start spreading the word though, | with only 3 chapters ready so far. Hopefully when it's closer to | being done you'll be able to get some attention from HN | AkshatM wrote: | This website needs a table of contents! The user experience of | needing to click through a linked list to get to a specific | chapter is _very_ suboptimal. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-27 23:00 UTC)