Free online courseNetwork Programming

Course content

• Video class: How to build a web client? (sockets)

  0h07m

• Exercise: What key feature of sockets allows programs to communicate over long distances?

• Video class: Program your own web server in C. (sockets)

  0h12m

• Exercise: When creating a basic web server using sockets, what is the main purpose of the 'accept' function?

• Video class: Socket servers can get client addresses. (accept, inet_ntop)

  0h02m

• Video class: Dealing with Endianness Issues in your Programs

  0h06m

• Exercise: In network communication, which byte order is considered the standard for network byte order on the Internet?

• Video class: How to write a multithreaded server in C (threads, sockets)

  0h14m

• Exercise: Which of the following techniques is primarily used to enhance server performance by enabling it to handle multiple connections simultaneously?

• Video class: Multithreaded Server Part 2: Thread Pools

  0h08m

• Exercise: What is the primary advantage of using a thread pool in a multi-threaded server?

• Video class: How to write a multithreaded webserver using condition variables (Part 3)

  0h07m

• Exercise: What is the primary function of a condition variable in a multi-threaded server?

• Video class: How one thread listens to many sockets with select in C.

  0h12m

• Exercise: Which of the following best describes the use of the 'select' function in network programming?

• Video class: Easy Networking in C (libcurl)

  0h14m

• Exercise: What advantage does using a library like lib curl provide when adding networking capabilities to a program?

• Video class: Why are Progress Bars Always Wrong? Progress Bar Example in C.

  0h35m

• Exercise: Why are progress bars often considered inaccurate or misleading in software applications?

• Video class: Highlighting a Student Programming Project (Code Review)

  0h12m

• Exercise: What is a key benefit of engaging in personal coding projects when learning programming?

• Video class: Detect Corruption with a Checksum

  0h13m

• Exercise: What is a primary purpose of using checksums in network communication?

• Video class: Sockets and Pipes Look Like Files (Unix/fdopen)

  0h12m

• Exercise: In Unix-style operating systems, why do different components such as pipes, sockets, and files often appear similar to programmers?

• Video class: How to get an IP address from a host name? (Example in C)

  0h18m

• Exercise: In network programming, if you want to convert a domain name into its respective IP address within your C program, which function is utilized to perform this conversion automatically, returning a linked list of possible addresses?

• Video class: The two main types of network socket

  0h06m

• Exercise: In network programming, which type of socket is most appropriate for applications where data reliability is not critical, such as in live video streaming?

• Video class: How to Send and Receive UDP packets (in C)

  0h23m

• Exercise: In network programming with C, when dealing with datagram sockets, which function is specifically used to send UDP packets to a specified address without establishing a connection?