What just happened?

This heading explains the working of tasks or instructions that you have just completed.

You will also find some other learning aids in the book, including:

Pop quiz – heading

These are short multiple choice questions intended to help you test your own understanding.

Have a go hero – heading

These set practical challenges and give you ideas for experimenting with what you have learned.

You will also find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "We enabled the interface using the ifconfig command."

Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "In order to see the data packets for our access point, add the following to the filter (wlan.bssid == 00:21:91:d2:8e:25) && (wlan.fc.type_subtype == 0x20)."