Yes, both of these would be in my top ten hall of fame software books. Bought both very early on in my career and they put me so far ahead of my peers.
My information would be decades out of date unfortunately. I suppose any current edition of "Internetworking with TCP/IP" would do, but they are horrendously expensive on Amazon so maybe out of print ?
I think either of these authors' books is fine by itself. You just need to update yourself with RFCs and any other sources of info for newer developments in the stack.
So cool to see my school finally get a shoutout on here.
Interesting that this in the Babbio building. This building was brand new when I was there and opened in the year that I graduated. This development came with heaps of new (and much needed) student housing. Anyway, the building was almost entirely for the new (and ultimately very successful) business school. All of us CpEs had to take most of our courses in either the very old building across the street or the other, also very old, building on campus.
Very happy to see them use the Stevens networking books. They are very good.
70% to pass is actually more relaxed than it was when I was there. It used to be 80%. Not like this matters; since this is a graduate level course, these professors gave insane curves to ensure that almost everyone passed.
In most of my undergrad CS classes you needed at least a C- (70%) to advance to the next course, so really anything below that was basically an "F". In grad school I believe I needed at least a B (80%) to get credit - no pressure!
Yeah, that's what I remember as well; in my case, to remedy the whole mediocre situation, they would ask you (your professors) to write a final project and present it to them so they can give you a re-evaluation and change the 'C-' to something better, even a 'B'!
That's a higher bar.
When I was undergrad student, A was > 85% and F was very likely 0 - 30% (??). Probably I still have my student guide book stored somewhere else.
And also there's D & E. Yes, my academic transcript shows it.
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Him and Doug Comer were the explainers of TCP/IP to a whole generation of network programmers.
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I think either of these authors' books is fine by itself. You just need to update yourself with RFCs and any other sources of info for newer developments in the stack.
Interesting that this in the Babbio building. This building was brand new when I was there and opened in the year that I graduated. This development came with heaps of new (and much needed) student housing. Anyway, the building was almost entirely for the new (and ultimately very successful) business school. All of us CpEs had to take most of our courses in either the very old building across the street or the other, also very old, building on campus.
Very happy to see them use the Stevens networking books. They are very good.
70% to pass is actually more relaxed than it was when I was there. It used to be 80%. Not like this matters; since this is a graduate level course, these professors gave insane curves to ensure that almost everyone passed.
And also there's D & E. Yes, my academic transcript shows it.