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Basu

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From: Cornell University

Registered: 2006-12-15

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Learning to build client/server software

I'm going to be taking a software engineering course next semester at school. It's in C++ and about halfway through we have to write some sort of medium sized 'real-world' software app. Most people just write a simple program (like a ticket booking system) which I suppose is par for the course. But I'd like to try my hand at something more 'real-world'. Even if it is in the end just a ticket booker, I'd like it to run as a server/client over the internet. But I have no idea about how to write software that communicates over the internet or anything about networking at all. Are there some primers I could get about writing distributed software like this? Especially with C++ libraries that I'll needing.

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peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

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Re: Learning to build client/server software

try 'man 7 socket'?
open up the mpd source (or some other server/client software you like)?

Last edited by peets (2008-12-22 13:36:25)

e_tank

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Registered: 2006-12-21

Posts: 80

Re: Learning to build client/server software

this c programming guide may be of some use.  it has a section on sockets which has an example of a server/client program that i think you should be able to modify to communicate via a tcp/ip socket.  i haven't done any kind of programming using sockets directly (though i'd like to play around with it when i have some free time) so i'm not sure exactly how you would go about making those changes.

open up the mpd source (or some other server/client software you like)?

netcat might be a good example as well

tam1138

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Registered: 2007-09-10

Posts: 238

Re: Learning to build client/server software

Beej's Guide to Network Programming is quite good.

peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

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Re: Learning to build client/server software

Beej's Guide to Network Programming is quite good.

Oh, I'd forgotten about it! That's how I learned. +1 then.