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Extreme C

You're reading from Extreme C

Product type Book

Published in Oct 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789343625

Pages 822 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Kamran Amini

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

1. Essential Features

2. From Source to Binary

3. Object Files

4. Process Memory Structure

5. Stack and Heap

6. OOP and Encapsulation

7. Composition and Aggregation

8. Inheritance and Polymorphism

9. Abstraction and OOP in C++

10. Unix – History and Architecture

11. System Calls and Kernels

12. The Most Recent C

13. Concurrency

14. Synchronization

15. Thread Execution

16. Thread Synchronization

POSIX concurrency control

17. Process Execution

18. Process Synchronization

19. Single-Host IPC and Sockets

20. Socket Programming

21. Integration with Other Languages

22. Unit Testing and Debugging

23. Build Systems

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.
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Authors (1)

Kamran Amini

Kamran Amini is an expert software architect with more than 10 years of experience in the analysis, design, development, and building large-scale, distributed enterprise software systems. His skills are not limited to a specific development platform and Kamrans architectural solutions include a variety of technologies, patterns, and concepts based on C and C++, Java, Python, etc. As an enterprise architect, hes always faced strict and risky conditions in which security, performance, data consistency and correctness, fault tolerance and high availability, authentication and authorization have always been important factors. His passion towards C and C++ has started since his teenage as a lead for his high schools soccer simulation team and hes just put it to be his main axis in the career. In recent years, he has just attended to study astrophysics degree because of his interest in astronomy and the wonder of night sky since his childhood and he has plans to be a data scientist and machine learning expert with focus on astrophysical data. Recently, blockchain and cryptocurrencies have been the target of his research and interest and because of his deep knowledge about classic cryptography and PKI, working on the expansion of the future possible usages and alternative blockchains are among his interests.

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