Traditional textbooks on networking are so verbose and tedious... often very focused on theory and less helpful for every-day networking.

I would love to see courses based on tools like shadow [1], encouraging a more hands-on learning experience. Network simulators seem pretty cool, but it is hard to benefit from them using the docs alone. With shadow it seems I would be able to run actual software on a simulated network.

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1: https://github.com/shadow/shadow?tab=readme-ov-file#why-is-s...