Teach Yourself Tcp/Ip in 14 Days

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Summary: Teach yourself UNIX TCP/IP
Review: Books is focused around Unix based TCP/IP commands - so if your in need of how Microsoft interacts with TCP/IP on a daily basis, this title might fall short for you.

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Summary: This is a sorry book.
Review: This book is poorly written, poorly organized and is full of errors. Don't waste your money on it. The glossary is inadequate, the index is no better, and the author uses acronyms without telling you about them. I found over 50 errors in the first half of the book. I would not recomment it to anyone. Surely there are better products on the market.

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Summary: Ok, but better books available.
Review: This book is quite dated now. It does cover the basics of TCP/IP and goes in quite a lot of detail.

I found that the books covered several areas that I wasn't very interested in eg Gateway Protocols, Network File System etc.

This books does not cover Windows or Linux so may not be very useful in todays computing environment. However if you can pick up a cheap copy then it may be worth adding to your library for later reference.

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Summary: Few are qualified to teach - NOT
Review: Very few people make good teachers, including most of the characters in our school system today at all levels. Mastery of a subject must be coupled with communicating effectively at all levels of student understanding and this is where the author also fails MISERABLY. Sadly, Timothy is another typical member and example of the 'Lousy Teacher Club.' After reading the first chapter, I felt that I wasted two hours of time and as I usually do, I quickly embarked on a search for somebody who can clearly TEACH the subject. I left Timothy at the blackboard mumbling to himself and scooted over to IBM Redbooks with a consortium of world experts. I don't know whether they can teach or not; You'll have to check it out for yourself. For me, effective learning usually means lots of clearly displayed illustrative pictures and hands-on interactive teaching-aids together with typed discussion. I think the instruction should be in shorter chunks so the student isn't overwhelmed by any one lesson. Scott Mueller, another mumbling member of the 'Lousy Teacher Club', wrote an equally miserable book called "Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Eighth Edition." I dumped Scott's cumbersome writing style and found a great teacher named Charles K. with great coursework at PCGUIDE.COM. Great teachers usually follow one or two guidelines: SIMPLE IS BETTER and in the case of "typewriter-itis", LESS IS MORE.