On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 19:21:34 -0500 Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
Cisco as the basis of networking material? Does nobody use Comer, Stallings, or Tannenbaum as basic texts anymore?
I currently use a Comer book. I've also used a Tannenbaum book in the past, but not recently. My favorite book, when I've used it was Radia Perlman's. Increasingly I'm seeing a trend away from actually relying on books if even requiring them to be read anymore. This is both a trend with faculty and students. I frequently get asked if the book is required, even when the course page clearly says it is. Students and often faculty often I find rely too heavily on Wikipedia pages, which I've found myself going to update since they lead to wrong assumptions and answers in questions I've assigned. I like to augment, as many faculty do, classic or timely research papers into assignments so that students are at least forced to look at something other than vendor white papers and blog posts found in search engines. John