Textbook and other Reference Material

There is no required textbook, but having access to the following text is strongly recommended:

Douglas E. Comer and David L. Stevens, Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol. III: Client-Server Programming and Applications, Linux/Posix Sockets Version, Prentice Hall, 2001. ISBN 0-13-032071-4.

I will follow this textbook for a large part of the course. Unfortunately this text appears to be out of print; if you are unable to get hold of a copy contact me.

Other potential useful resources include the following:

• Beej’s Guide to Network Programming offers a nice complement to the text (and to the course material in general).
• Unix Programming Frequently Asked Questions.
• POSIX threads programming
• POSIX thread (pthread) libraries tutorial