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Book ReviewsUnix Network Programming, Vol. 1: The Sockets Networking API, Third Edition |
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Book: Unix Network Programming, Vol. 1: The Sockets Networking API, Third Edition
Written by: W. Richard Stevens Bill Fenner Andrew M. Rudoff Richard W. Stevens |
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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The classic and best Unix network programming book!
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5 / 5
With the updated third edition, this book keeps getting better and better with age. I've been using this book since 1991 when I was just a green programmer who got assigned to his first real Unix project. I'm not one who dishes out praises lightly, so for me to say that this is _the_ best network programming book around, there must be good reasons. Stevens had a way of taking a complex subject and in a few pages, if you follow the text and examples, making it crystal clear. The new authors, I believe, are continuing this fine tradition.
Practically everything about network programming is here. Many examples on how to use socket, bind, listen, select, accept, connect, read, write, you name it. Theare are lots of sample code on how to write robust TCP/UDP clients and servers. The programming style is clear and easy to understand. The new edition has plenty of updates to follow the POSIX standards.
This book will not make you an expert overnight, but it will make you an expert. There are other network programming books out there, to be sure, but this one is at the top.
Classic work - but in series need of updates as time goes on
Rating:
5 / 5
I cannot fathom a guess as to how many times the books in this series have saved my in project work over the years. The only drawback with this series is that some publisher should endeavor to keep them up to date. Serious Unix system programmers must have copies of the complete series.
Great book about sockets
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5 / 5
It deserve place on your shelf. I just wanted to know more about sockets. The choice was right. There is no more mystery. I didn't go into details about code. That was not my goal. The goal was socket. I got what I was expecting to get.
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