Title: you will learn about both history and science of networks
Product review: this book by Comer covers the breadth of networking. It's quite deep in some subjects, like history of early network technology and mediums outside of copper wires. It could have a better programming section. Theres like 1 network programming example and a library that's supposed to make network programming easier but sense it just wraps the sockets api, Its advantage is unclear. A little explanations of patterns of use of the socket functions as a whole would be better. Most of these functions have analogs in python (its pritty much a direct translation function per function) perhaps in this garbage collection, endian free language, you can learn more about the pattern better. The section on IPv6 is quite nice.
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