I worked in higher education computing centres for 10 years before becoming an independent IT consultant and developer, and have maintained my academic links. From 1990 to 2001 I gave regular courses at HND and degree level. A selection of course notes is provided below.
This course was given over a number of years at Brunel University up to the academic year 2000-2001. Since it places emphasis on the basic principles of networking and communications, most of the material is relevant today. This is in large part due to the genius of the initial designers of the Internet and the Web; their forward-thinking creation resulted in an extendable system whose underpinning design rarely if ever needed fundamental revision.
This course was given at the University of Surrey in 2000.