Professor Creates His Own Cisco Manual

yootje writes "ZDnet is running a story about a professor who made his own Cisco networking textbook, with 800 pages: "Computing instructor Matt Basham's suggestions for improving Cisco Systems' official training manuals fell on deaf ears for years. But he appears to have the networking giant's attention now." The professor made his book available for free on his website."

Re:Eeeeek...

[Trigun]

Once you're done slashdotting it, I'll see what I can do to convert it.

OpenOffice save as PDF rocks.

Re:Still Wondering

[Anonymous Coward]

Vested interests

Re:Still Wondering

[Anonymous Coward]

Step 1: Create an "open source" textbook.

Step 2: ??

Step 3: Profit??

What???

[morgdx]

Networks need manuals? I thought you just had to make sure no-one knocked the patch cables out.

Re:Eeeeek...

[Minwee]

"It's a 5.1MB Microsoft Word file."

So it's only three pages long? Somehow I expected more.

Re:What???

[w1r3sp33d]

It's not hard fixing a disconnected cable, I am sure the majority of the book is probably a guide to hunting and finding lost token's (best hiding spots, migratory patterns, reactions of cornered tokens, ect)

Certified

[Bigbutt]

Well, it's for CCNA which is an ok beginning. Downloading now to see if it'll help with my CCNP recert.

I got my CCNA simply to understand networking better and the environment at work. The company paid for a CCNP class so I felt I had to give it a shot and got my CCNP 5 months after the class ended. Now that I have to recert, I'm studying the Switch/Router books and, even though I didn't work as a network engineer, much of the material is familiar.

Do you know what they call someone who received the lowest passing scores on the tests? "Cisco Certified" :-)

Wow...

[GodHead]

Offering a 5mb file on slashdot...

That takes balls.

Re:Cisco books...

[w1r3sp33d]

I can't agree more, Doyle's TCP/IP I&II are two of the best books I have ever read. Don't mod me funny, I am not kidding.

Re:This should happen more often

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe his suggestions was crap. Ever seen Homer Simpson's car design? Sometimes there's a good reason why people ignore your contribution, as good as you think it is, hit yourself in the head with a shovel and move on in life.