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Summary: Is This the Best There Is?
Review: I am a very experienced C/C++ software engineer currently taking a community college class on WinSock networking programming. I'm used to dealing with difficult text books. However this is one of the worst I have ever wrestled with.There are no exercises in the book. All their examples are long; no short examples of code to clarify any topic. Their way of explaining most subjects seems to me to be unclear, their wording such that I have to read a paragraph several times to figure out what they are trying to say. Finally and especially, their explanation of the key topic of socket states is flat-out awful. I have had a little experience dealing tangentially with socket states on my last project, and I still came away from this chapter confused and with my head spinning. I hope that there are better WinSock books than this out there!
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Summary: Very good book
Review: If you want to learn about WinSock API and the WinSock programming tactics this book is very good. However, I found few errors which are not very critical, in the examples. I never compiled the programs that comes with it but used the examples and theory learn about WinSock interface. When I started to read this book I have already had some experiance in BSD sockets and my intention as a Unix programmer was to learn the Windows implementation of Socket. For that purpose, this book was extreamly helpfull for me.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This book is an excellent book on describing programming using Windows Sockets. It provides a nice overview of connectionless and connection-based networking. It describes how to make using Winsock reliable. This includes implementing "clean" shutdowns as well as dependable connection maintenance. It gives very useful tips on debugging your connections as well as your networking application. The authors even take the time to point out some of the "gotchas" to using sockets. There's full documentation of the IP and TCP headers and the protocol packets that are being exchanged. In short, I found this book to be a necessity when programming a sockets application.
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Summary: Very good winsock guide & reference
Review: This is one of the best programming books I've read! In the six months since I've bought this book and read through it, I've managed to program my own winsock wrapper class & functions along with a Win32 client-server app, based mainly on code and principles from this book. The included examples do need a bit of tweaking to work on MS VC++ 4.2, 5.0, and 6.0; and the executables included are mostly 16-bit apps; but the code itself is extremely useful.
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