Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In computing, network programming, essentially identical to socket programming or client–server programming, involves writing computer programs that communicate with other programs across a computer network. The program or process initiating the communication is called a client process, and the program waiting for the communication to be initiated is the server process. The client and server processes together form a distributed system. The communication between the client and server process may either be connection-oriented (such as an established TCP virtual circuit or session), or connectionless (based on UDP datagrams).

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