Socket Programming
In the previous chapter, we discussed single-host IPC and gave an introduction to socket programming. In this chapter, we want to complete our introduction and address socket programming in depth using a real client-server example: the calculator project.
The order of topics in this chapter might seem a bit unusual, but the purpose is to give you a better understanding about various types of sockets and how they behave in a real project. As part of this chapter, we discuss the following topics:
- Firstly, we give a review on what we explained in the previous chapter. Note that this review is just a short recap, and it is a must for you to read the second part of the previous chapter dedicated to socket programming.
- As part of the recap we discuss various types of sockets, stream and datagram sequences, and some other topics that are essential for our continuation of our calculator example.
- The client-server example, the calculator project...
