Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice

I took the course at UCL that uses that textbook and started to work afterwards at one of the big networking vendors. This course (and textbook) was so helpful and covered everything I needed to know to get started. Highly recommended, and it is free.

Which is the preferred version? There's a newer 2nd edition available there, but not many updates and lots of warnings about it being a draft.

This looks really nice!<p>As an aside, is there a course where its not just details in text but some actual hands on mini-implementation work too? I like reading books but for programming I&#x27;ve found I internalize the material better by working through an actual project, even if its a toy project

it can be as a reference