DEVELOPING SKILLS IN COMPUTER NETWORKS

• To fully understand networking concepts, students must have lots of experience with both hardware and software.
• The students first assignment involved installing the hardware and software on two different computers and connecting the computers to the campus peer-to-peer Windows network.
• The students were also assigned a series of three assignments on the three major network software products, Windows NT, Novell and UNIX. In each assignment, the students were given an account on the network along with a series of questions that require the use of software tools typically used by a network administrator.
• Although most of the students had little or no experience with all three of the network operating systems, with the proper guidance before and during the assignments, the students not only learned a lot but received high marks.