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Computer science fundamentals

Computer Networks

The planned outline of 18 modules. Lessons are written, run and reviewed before they are published.

Coming soon 18 modules

Coming soon. This track is being written. Below is its planned outline: a lesson appears here once its examples have been run and its technical review is signed off.

Planned outline

  1. Module 1

    How the Internet works

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  2. Module 2

    Switching, performance and the physical layer

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  3. Module 4

    Medium access control and Ethernet

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  4. Module 5

    Switching, spanning tree and VLANs

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  5. Module 6

    Wireless and mobile networks

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  6. Module 7

    IPv4 addressing, subnetting and NAT

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  7. Module 8

    IP datagrams, ARP, DHCP and ICMP

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  8. Module 9

    IPv6

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  9. Module 10

    Routing

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  10. Module 11

    Transport layer and reliable delivery

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  11. Module 12

    TCP

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  12. Module 13

    Socket programming

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  13. Module 14

    DNS

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  14. Module 15

    Web and application protocols

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  15. Module 16

    Network security

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  16. Module 17

    Troubleshooting and operations

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  17. Module 18

    Data centres, cloud and the full picture

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