I need help

Can anyone suggest material, sites, etc. to help me out. I am a wet behind the ears MIS Graduate who was taught nothing in his classes. Good old American College Education just isn't cutting it in the technical world.

I need to learn how all this works...Socket programming, TCP/IP functionality, basically how to write a server application designed for windows, but from the lowest level possible.

Please don't rag on me, I just need serious advice from experienced programmers.

Thanx for your time.
[539 byte] By [BeginnerJames] at [2007-11-17 13:40:33]
# 1 Re: I need help
Well, if u really want advice, go to the toliet and.....

Oh well, I see this is a forum....so, eh-hem!(clears my throat first)

AND Now! WinSock Programming and TCP/IP....go to amazon.com and type WinSock or TCP/IP and u'll find some books. But a warning first : There's only 5 WinSock books and none of them are good. All of them really sucks. And worse still, the code provided don't work on the latest compilers(Visual C++ 6) and the contents are badly outdated. Most of them are published in 1995 and earlier.....and since WinSock is so boring and only talks about functions like recv(), sendto() and send() stuff all the time, I got sooooooOOOOOO darn sick of it and learn COM/ATL instead. But if you like WinSock and TCP/IP....go ahead and try it, after all.....although WinSock-based applications are not as hot as COM/ActiveX stuff......they definetely suppased that of other applications. :)

Yes, Rate me, pal! Yeah, I'm very direct, cos' I'm made of DirectX....DirectDraw, DirectType, DirectWalk, DirectRun, DirectLove, DirectSpeech, DirectPlay, DirectKiss, DirectSex, DirectWork and DirectThink and not to forget: DirectAsk and DirectDo.
Xeon at 2007-11-9 12:10:39 >
# 2 Re: I need help
Hi,

Check this out they are some sites related to TCP, WINSOCK and BSD have a look at it, hope they might be of some help to you :-)

WINSOCK

http://www.stardust.com/wsresource/winsock1/winsock.html
http://www.goodnet.com/~esnible/winsock.html
http://www.goodnet.com/~esnible/winsock.html
http://www.catalyst.com/freebies.html#tcpintro
http://www.catalyst.com/freebies.html#tcpintro

TCP / IP

http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/unix/unix-socket-faq/unix-socket-faq.html

Socket - FAQ

http://www.catalyst.com/tcpdoc13.html
http://www.catalyst.com/tcpdoc13.html

VB - WINDOWS API

http://sunsite.unc.edu/winsock/winsock-1.1/winsock.html

Online Help for Winsock API.

http://www.sockets.com/sample.htm
http://www.sockets.com/sample.htm

Examples of Winsock Applications

http://kipper.york.ac.uk/~vic/sock-faq/
http://kipper.york.ac.uk/~vic/sock-faq/

Best Regards

Nilesh Karkhanis
Nilesh Karkhanis at 2007-11-9 12:11:44 >