Internet Book, The:Everything You Need to Know About Computer Networking and How the Internet Works: Everything You Need to Know About Computer Networking and How the Internet Works - Softcover

Comer, Douglas E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130308528 ISBN 13: 9780130308528

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

For use as a primary text for courses on using the Internet or as a supplement for computer literacy courses that cover networking or the Internet.

Doug Comer's, The Internet Book, Third Edition utilizes a non-technical perspective to explain the technology of how computers communicate, what the Internet is, how the Internet works, and what the Internet can do for people. This book works to fully connect students to the “big picture” by presenting a solid overview of networking and the Internet, rather than burying them with details. Comer assumes no prior background in computer networking or the Internet.

About this title

About the Author

DOUGLAS COMER is a professor at Purdue University where he teaches popular computer networking courses. He also teaches hundreds of professionals and diverse audiences around the world each year about he Internet. He has written a widely acclaimed and extremely popular series of books on networking and the Internet. He was one of the researchers who contributed to the formation of the Internet in the late 1970s and 1980s. He has served on the Internet Architecture Board, the group responsible for guiding development of the Internet, and is a Fellow of the ACM. He wrote this book in response to everyone who has asked him for an explanation of the Internet that is both technically correct and easily understood.

From the Back Cover

Douglas Comer, best-selling networking author, teacher, and consultant, provides a unique and understandable overview of not only how to use the Internet but how it works. In the Third Edition of The INTERNET Book, the author utilizes a nontechnical perspective to explain the technology of how computers communicate, what the Internet is, how the Internet works, and what the Internet can do for people. The author's practical approach offers the reader the big picture by presenting a solid overview of networking and the Internet rather than buying the reader with details. This book sows the reader the potential ways the Internet can change how we conduct our personal and professional lives. Comer assumes no prior background knowledge in computer networking or the Internet.

The INTERNET Book:

• Provides an overview of Electronic Commerce and how the Internet can be used to conduct business and commercial transactions.
• Includes Security and Encryption with respect to Internet commerce, why security is needed, and the technologies that provide secure communications.
• Describes getting started with hands on experience with the concept of a Web browser and examples of Web sites to visit.
• Updates topics throughout and adds information about current technologies such as shopping carts, cookies, personalized Web search results, Internet faxes, remote desktops, and streaming audio and video.
• Covers Internet connection technologies: ADSL, cable modems, and wireless networks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130308528
• ISBN 13: 9780130308528
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 351