It essentially takes the opposite approach to Networking a Top-Down Approach. I start out from a state where computers, and computer networks don't exist and build up from that point. Whereas A Top-Down Approach works backwards from the application layer.

>I read most of it and thought it went into great detail explaining the basics to the general audience.

Thank you!

>It also doesn't require any programming, well mostly!

Yep, I did have to throw in a bit of pseudocode for some of the microcontroller section.