Books on programing networking software

someoneelse

Anyone know of any good books that would teach you

how to program with in c++ internet/network software? And of course it must work with unix/os 10. Not some windows programing book.

whee

I found a <a href="http://www.kohala.com/start/"; target="_blank">few books</a> written by W. Richard Stevens that seem to get pretty good reviews. There's also a few online articles linked <a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/books/format.php3?file=unix.htm"; target="_blank">here</a> (near the bottom, the ones on sockets) that look like a good way to get an overall idea of some aspects.



Any book/article about BSD sockets should be useful, because it'll work in OS X.

rick1138

I believe this book will cover networking, among other things:



<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672322307/qid=1023431352/103-2987995-3618200&quot; target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672322307/qid=1023431352/103-2987995-3618200&lt;/a&gt;



It's written by some former NEXT programmers,who tend to be versed in networking,they are all regular posters at the macosx-dev@omnigroup.com mailing list,which you can join here:



<a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists/"; target="_blank">http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists/</a>;





Also try looking around at <a href="http://www.stepwise.com"; target="_blank">www.stepwise.com</a> ,ex-NEXT programmers as well,a lot of info on networking and distributed programming is available.



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thuh freak

i dont know about books, cuz i dont like readin' em (they are too physical), but this site <a href="http://world.std.com/~jimf/papers/sockets/sockets.html"; target="_blank">BSD Sockets</a> is great. fyi: macosx/unix use BSD sockets for net'ing. Once you get a basic chat proggie working, than you can learn more from manpages. Thats how I learned, and I'm pretty darn good at net prog'g now. by-the-by, that site uses procedural programming (c), so if you want a (c++/objc/java/..) class you'd have to write your own around the code he gives. Also to note: i think windows sockets ("winsocks") are also based on BSD sockets, but i aint sure.