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Computer Networking Course Materials Free Online

Posted by timothy on from the really-open-courseware dept.

Shivkumar Kalyanaraman writes "I am an Associate Professor in the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering (ECSE) department at Rensselaer Polytechic Institute (RPI). This post is to inform you that I have recently collected all the videos and audios of my networking classes and put them online, freely available." Read on below; the course materials are also available on CD.

"For those who might prefer a CD-ROM set of the videos, that can also be ordered from this site. I hope this will be a useful reference for those working in the networking industry or interested to learn about or brush up their knowledge of networking, but do not have time to take formal university courses. It could also help complement your regular studies on this topic.

Comments/Errata welcome! If you find this resource useful, please recommend it to your friends and colleagues.

Thanks!
-Shiv
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
Associate Professor, Dept of ECSE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)"

5 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Lecture 11 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Read it more carefully -- Note there is no lecture 6, 11, 19 -- class was cancelled on those days.

  2. free classes, except for me by Chrome3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just paid 3k$ to take the broadband networking class this past spring semester. Where can I get my refund?

    On a relavent note. Shiv was a very good professor, and I learned an extreme amount of information.

  3. Re:Bandwidth Spike by shivkuma · · Score: 2, Informative

    Folks,

    Interestingly my research is in the area of "traffic management" :)

    The best solution I have for those being traffic jammed at my site and really care about the content is a CD-ROM set that can be ordered there (sneakernet still beats the internet :)

    As some others observed some lectures are not there -- i will have to remove those links. Those were exam days or class cancellation days. The content should be intact if you skip those days.

    BTW, do you guys know other sites with freely available audio/video of courses? I found one on the MIT site on Linear algebra...

    -"Prof." Shiv

  4. Re:Bandwidth Spike by pillohead · · Score: 3, Informative

    I found this one on slashdot. This is the C programming course from the University of Washington in Seattle, if you poke around you'll find the other online available courses.

  5. Re:Any way to get these videos without ms crap? by H*(BZ_2)-Module · · Score: 2, Informative
    mplayer/mencoder will do both of the things you have asked for. I believe transcode will as well. Basically what you want is something like the following(using mencoder):

    mencoder movie.asf -o movie.mpg -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=96:vol=6 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1300:vhq:v4mv

    You'll have to tweak the options to get desirable results.