UNIX Network Programming

    Hello there /g/, how are you this fine day.

    I'm quite sure we have a lot of 'expert programmers' in here so I would like to ask you. Is "UNIX Network Programming," by Richard Stevens good to start with network programming in unix/linux?

    A the university I'm studying we are forced to use java for almost everything and I would like to learn more in C and/or C++ as I'm more interested in low level programing.

    I have coded things like proxies or simple ftp clients in java but I'm quite sure it's a child's play compared to doing that in C/C++. So I ask you /g/, is this a good book to start or should I first read something as an introduction?

Damn, forgot to change /g/ to /prog/. My bad.

>>2
HERESY!

Nobody help this broadcast-for-help faggot.

It is an OK book, but you better be well-versed in C before you think about doing networking stuff in C. If you can do all the exercises in K&R then yeah its a pretty good book. Helps to have a bit of understanding about TCP/IP as well, you might want to look into Stevens' TCP/IP books, or just read Wikipedia.

>>4
see >>3

DON'T HELP HIM!

>>6

Why do I get the feeling that you are about 12 years old?

>>7
Because your retarded.

Stevens' books are pretty much THE canonical tome on TCP/IP and old-fashioned low-level socket programming. However, there's a whole class of security vulnerabilities that come about as a direct result of using C for that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow
You'll also probably need something like Valgrind or ElectricFence

>>8
What about my retarded?

Bro, what is retarded where, bro?

>>8

your

'Nuff said.

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