First chapter of the textbook available in PDF

Linus Torvalds claimed that many things in life are better when they are free (you may want to research this quote for some fun). The first chapter of the textbook we use for this subject is made available for free download by the publisher.

You may want to grab it while it lasts. The only drawback is that this file belongs to the Spanish version of the book. Or is it an advantage? Please let me know you opinion on this with a comment (it won't bite you).

Please note there is a newer version of the book (6th edition) just published in English. You can borrow the  5th edition from the school library.

Reading section 1.1 before the first lecture will help you follow it better. If you have any questions before the class it is a good thing you sent me an email so I can properly address it in my lecture. We will follow this method along the course so we can make the classroom more efficient (any doubts from your readings or exercises you can email it to me before the lecture).

Just in case you doubt it: Tomorrow September 11 (oops, what a date) we won't start the Lab sessions as erroneously states the school time-table web app. 

A short history of the Internet

A nice introduction to the origins of the Internet. 

Here you have this course's syllabus.

Welcome to new students course 2012-13

Feel free to look back in previous posts. From now on, all the posts will pertain to this new course and I hope you will enjoy the course, but mostly I do expect you to learn all the basics about Computer Networks along this year. This what this course is all about, the basic concepts of TCP/IP networks.

I have been using a blog instead of other vehicles for distributing the course information. We will discuss this on the very first day to establish whether we keep this system or you prefer me to switch to other type of platform.

Please note that this blog is open to people outside of the course, make sure you feel comfortable about it. Attendance record and marks are made public in a transparent way from day one.

Blog format allows me to be posting news, labs or any other relevant information about the course, while you have on the right-hand side the course spreadsheet covering attendance and mark information and a file repository all relevant files can be downloaded from. Did I mention no username/password is ever required?