[HN Gopher] Show HN: I'm Writing a Free Book Called Computer Net...
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       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:
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       | 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.
        
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