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TCP/IP Sockets in C Bundle: TCP/IP Sockets in C, Second Edition: Practical Guide for Programmers (Morgan Kaufmann Practical Guides)

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This book includes enough easy to read explanations of actual working code that you can within a few hours have a client/server socket connection up and working. Both the text and the code are well written and easy to follow. Advanced information about non-blocking I/O allowed me to quickly implement background socket reads without tying up a foreground process. The annoying occurrences of "address already in use" errors is explained clearly, and how to get around them by the use of socket options. I had literally zero problems compiling and executing the examples with the gcc compiler and Ubuntu Linux.
As the title says, it's a book for C programmers about sockets, not for other languages. There is a chapter on C++ use, which I have not needed yet.

This is a great book to start learning about sockets, whether you're a C or C++ programmer. Although it applies to Unix, the concept is same for Windows. I program with C++ and never learned C. since the syntax is similar, all a C++ programmer has to do is look up minor details about C syntax like printf and main(argc, argv). This book is very clear and structured nicely. A 13 yr old that has learned c/c++ syntax can easily grasp this book. thumbs up

It's OK and I find it very useful because it contains many examples and the most important things are explained well. I think that one should know the basic concepts of networks and network programming in order to understand this book. Also a minimum level of programming in C is required, but don't worry. If you don't understand something in the source code you can immediately look it up in a classical C reference book.
This is the only book I found on this topic: Network programming in C.

the publicity is careful not to mention Windows. unfortunately, neither does the book. "basic" means "unix only".