TCP/IP Sockets in C
Practical Guide for Programmers
2nd Edition
Published on 22. April 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-12-374540-8 (ISBN)
Description
TCP/IP Sockets in C: Practical Guide for Programmers, Second Edition is a quick and affordable way to gain the knowledge and skills needed to develop sophisticated and powerful web-based applications. The book's focused, tutorial-based approach enables the reader to master the tasks and techniques essential to virtually all client-server projects using sockets in C. This edition has been expanded to include new advancements such as support for IPv6 as well as detailed defensive programming strategies.
If you program using Java, be sure to check out this book's companion, TCP/IP Sockets in Java: Practical Guide for Programmers, 2nd Edition.
If you program using Java, be sure to check out this book's companion, TCP/IP Sockets in Java: Practical Guide for Programmers, 2nd Edition.
Reviews / Votes
"Despite my having developed systems software with Sockets and C for 20+ years, I find myself still needing a book like this one. It covers all the subtleties and gotchas that one encounters when writing distributed applications in C with Sockets." --Bobby Krupczak, The Krupczak OrganizationMore details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Software developers, network programmers, systems programmers, practitioners, researchers who know C and want to learn about writing C networking applications that use TCP/IP, students in courses on computer networking, operating systems, and distributed computing
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
415 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-374540-8 (9780123745408)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
03/2009
2nd Edition
Morgan Kaufmann
€24.95
Available for download
Persons
Michael J. Donahoo teaches networking to undergraduate and graduate students at Baylor University, where he is an assistant professor. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are in large-scale information dissemination and management. Kenneth L. Calvert is an associate professor at University of Kentucky, where he teaches and does research on the design and implementation of computer network protocols. He has been doing networking research since 1987, and teaching since 1991. He holds degrees from MIT, Stanford, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Content
1 Introduction
2 Basic TCP Sockets
3 Of Names and Address Families
4 Using UDP Sockets
5 Sending and Receiving Data
6 Beyond the Basic Socket Programming
7 Under the Hood
8 Socket Programming in C++
2 Basic TCP Sockets
3 Of Names and Address Families
4 Using UDP Sockets
5 Sending and Receiving Data
6 Beyond the Basic Socket Programming
7 Under the Hood
8 Socket Programming in C++