Comment by fc417fc802
2 days ago
This would be an interesting way to frame an entire series of textbooks covering pretty much all of science, electrical engineering, and CS. The entire premise being "you type a URL into your browser and it loads the requested webpage".
Each textbook in the series at the depth of a bachelors degree, split by relevant subject including physics, chemistry, biology, neuroscience, materials science, electrical engineering, hardware design, kernel and device driver design, systems level networking, and all the remaining browser engine, VM, security, and webdev stuff.
To keep the task at least theoretically tractable cut off at the NIC in the local box.
Who knew you could premise a textbook on protein folding on "how a web page is loaded"?
great idea! i knew a physics professor once who developed an entire semester using "how racecars work" as his guiding light. i think he wrote a textbook, but i can't find it.
not: the physics of racecars, that is explaining racecar dynamics given physics fundamentals, rather explaining the fundamentals using racecars instead of spherical cows. i think not very different to first semester analog ee courses using hifi audio as the basis.