Week 4

This week we talked about the concept of Data Driven and a review of TCP/UDP. The assignment PA3 when dealing with programming using sockets was another challenge I had to overcome. I did socket programming before in CSC374, but that was using the library from Unix. However, the library was still the same when using the socket library for Windows called WinSock. The functions used in that library are still the same so it was not that hard to understand what was going on. The tutorials from the MSDN website and doing basic internet searches have helped me in trying to complete this assignment. The problem that gave me the most trouble was trying to send the data over to the server and sorting it.  I then realize I had to apply the stuff we did in PA2 (serialize/deserialize) to create packets and send them over to the server. PA4 looks like an even more difficult assignment, but the way Ed walked us through it made it seem not so hard after all. I look forwards to see what happens next.

Attention Houston, we have a connection.