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Title: UNIX Network Programming by W. Richard Stevens ISBN: 0-13-490012-X Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 January, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (47 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good but overrated
Comment: The book is very good for touching on quite a few topics in Network programming and doing so in a concise way. However, when reading the book I often felt as if I wasn't learning socket programming so much as learning how to access Steven's personal API to socket programming. When Stevens introduces a new concept he will immediately afterwords introduce a wrapper function that he uses to do it 'correctly'. From then on he will continue to use this wrapper function throughout the rest of the book whenever he needs to use the stanard library function. In fact, in any 10 lines of source in the book it seems like there will be 7 wrapper functions. This of course makes it very hard to use the book as a reference unless you are resigned to using Steven's wrapper library in all of your projects. In several cases, when attempting to reference some concept I ended up flipping through several pages in different chapters to look up definitions and prototypes for these functions in different place, and then diging deeper into the function to decipher what was going on. All I really wanted was a quick answer to a specific question concerning a socket. I can't deny that what he ends up with is a nicely done system for working with sockets, but I don't feel a general programming text should take this approach. I'll be shopping for a different socket book to use as a desk reference.
Rating: 5
Summary: Easy to learn/read, Concepts/Code Perfectly Explained
Comment: Richard Stevens is DA man! He has been able to build upon the same fundamental examples throughout the book to teach increasingly advanced concepts in a simple format. He uses his previous books as Master references, but hardly needs to with such good explanations in this book.
I have flown through this book in amazing time and it helps that the autoconfigure script and directory seperated code is VERY EASY to get running on so many different platforms, not to mention; the code is extremely well written in C and very modular. I constantly found myself checking out information about books and papers on his web page. I love books that teach well, and this book definitely does it. One way this is done is numbering the code AND showing the file location/name of the code being discuessed. Errors are minimal if any by the second printing.
Coming out of college this was the perfect book to solidify me as a network programmer. I'm ready to go.... but, with this book... I never leave home without it.
Rating: 5
Summary: It's simply good!
Comment: If I want a dog, I won't buy a cat.
The good thing of a cat is, it won't bark.
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Title: UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications (2nd Edition) by W. Richard Stevens ISBN: 0130810819 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 25 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $66.00 |
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Title: Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment by W. Richard Stevens ISBN: 0201563177 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 30 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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Title: The Protocols (TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1) by W. Richard Stevens ISBN: 0201633469 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 31 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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Title: The Implementation (TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2) by Gary R. Wright, W. Richard Stevens ISBN: 020163354X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 31 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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Title: Programming with POSIX(R) Threads by David R. Butenhof ISBN: 0201633922 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 16 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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