Yes, Mininet is used for networking courses in Stanford/Princeton. There are a number of programming assignments readily available for Mininet: https://github.com/mininet/mininet/wiki/Assignments

Wow reading through these assignments I'm blown away this is for a first year course. At this time in my first year half of the class couldn't handle an if statement. Wish I could of went to Stanford.

No worries! The Stanford undergraduate networking class was offered online last quarter. The videos are up here: http://networking.class.stanford.edu

Thanks. I'd found those but what I'm really interested in are the course assignments which only seem to be available for the actual course. The first two are the only ones I can't find right now

The first two programming assignments can be found here: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/10au-cs144/lab/reliable/reliable.... The 2012 assignments were the same.

Thanks your awesome :)