Series: For Dummies (Computers)
Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 5 edition (January 3, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764517600
ISBN-13: 978-0764517600
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.9 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #694,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #34 in Books > Computers & Technology > Networking & Cloud Computing > Networks, Protocols & APIs > TCP-IP #867 in Books > Textbooks > Computer Science > Networking #2525 in Books > Textbooks > Computer Science > Programming Languages
Background: I am a software tester who has worked on several projects using network technologies to implement the software solutions. In each case, I had no training or understanding of the underlying techologies used (a situation that creates tons of stress and frustration). I have been a purchaser of many of the "For Dummies" books because they do often succeed in providing an introduction to, and conceptual framework for understanding the subjects they discuss.My Review: This book has been a mixed bag. Before reading TCP/IP for Dummies, I did in fact feel "like a dummy". Reading it has helped to allay that feeling. The authors do succeed in explaining many TCP/IP technologies and networking issues. I now have an awareness of what was going on under the hood of those software implementations I worked on and why they were implemented as they were. However, I must agree fully with the reviewers who found the food analogies used by the authors excessive and unuseful. For the most part, the analogies did nothing to illustrate the concepts. At several points I just stopped reading altogether because I knew the author(s) were off on their food tangent again, had forgotten their subject matter, and more importantly their audience. At other times, I crossed out entire paragraphs because they contained nothing but the continued bad use of these annoying analogies and explained nothing. (However, I blame these lapses on the editors as much as on the authors.)Beyond these frustrations, I also took the following exceptions with the book:(1) the authors fail to explain key concepts such as ports and subnetting in an understandable fashion. I found no reference to or discussion of TCP/IP sockets.
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