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Beej's Guide to Network Programming

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Re: Beej's Guide to Network Programming

#21

This guide was my bible when I was a kid. I learned not just network programming, but also C with it.

That's how Andrej Karpathy's video lectures are shaping up for me... I'm learning a lot about not just neural networks, but Python and Pytorch.

It's more or less magical when you find just the right conjugate match between tutorial material and your own learning style. I can see how Beej's Guide might do the same for someone new to both socket programming and C.

Re: Beej's Guide to Network Programming

#23
There is also a C guide [1] which has a pretty interesting email policy...

     I’m generally available to help out with email questions so feel free to write in, but I can’t guarantee a response. 
     I lead a pretty busy life and there are times when I just can’t answer a question you have. 
     When that’s the case, I usually just delete the message. It’s nothing personal; 
     I just won’t ever have the time to give the detailed answer you require. [...]
[1] https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/split/

Re: Beej's Guide to Network Programming

#24
I'll ask here in case I can get help.

I followed Beej's linked guide to transfer data over udp sometime ago, written in C on a Windows machine. I then compiled the code on Mac os x but could never get it to work properly. Tried all the Google suggestions at the time, posting this comment in case there's an obvious "oh did you set X?" tip from someone that has done a similar task.

Re: Beej's Guide to Network Programming

#25

Posted a million times before, and should be posted a million times again in the future. This is one of the only reference books I've ever used, and it got me through my first real programming job. Wonderful text. Thank you, Beej!

This is probably the best one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26100075

Could be wrong, but isn't this the same Guide?

Re: Beej's Guide to Network Programming

#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is probably the best one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26100075

Could be wrong, but isn't this the same Guide?

I think that's the point. They were talking about how many times it's been posted, so that's probably the best of those submissions.

Re: Beej's Guide to Network Programming

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post #23

There is also a C guide [1] which has a pretty interesting email policy... I’m generally available to help out with email questions so feel free to write in, but I can’t guarantee a response. I lead a pretty busy life and there are times when I just can’t answer a question you have. When that’s the case, I usually just delete the message. It’s nothing personal; I just won’t ever have the time to give the detailed ans…

I love this level of honesty. It is true, but people never say it
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