<story><title>Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language</title><url>https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/compendium/network-protocols?share_key=97d3ba4c24d21147</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nindalf</author><text>I took a networking course in college and I didn&amp;#x27;t learn much, if anything. We used textbooks like Kurose and Ross that went deep into details like the header format of each packet of each layer. Ultimately, these were useless details that had no place in a textbook. It made me hate the subject.&lt;p&gt;I eventually learned the subject properly through High Performance Browser Networking. This is the one book I would recommend to any software developer. Available for free here - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hpbn.co&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hpbn.co&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrmuagi</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d largely echo your sentiment, but luckily our professor had a hands-on attitude. This involved actually coding things that used those concepts. We had to implement a non-recursive DNS resolver and a FTP server. Reading the RFCs and chewing out something that worked (mostly) was real fun.</text></comment>
<story><title>Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language</title><url>https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/compendium/network-protocols?share_key=97d3ba4c24d21147</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nindalf</author><text>I took a networking course in college and I didn&amp;#x27;t learn much, if anything. We used textbooks like Kurose and Ross that went deep into details like the header format of each packet of each layer. Ultimately, these were useless details that had no place in a textbook. It made me hate the subject.&lt;p&gt;I eventually learned the subject properly through High Performance Browser Networking. This is the one book I would recommend to any software developer. Available for free here - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hpbn.co&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hpbn.co&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robpalmer</author><text>That book is one of the most useful engineering books I have ever read. Top quality theory with practical application.</text></comment>