It’s protocols the whole way down
Over the course of the past two weeks, you have seen and heard about protocols and how they govern our communication via networks. In this step, it is time to …
Course: Networking with Python: Socket Programming for Communication
Detecting missing messages
Before you can deal with a problem, you have to spot it. Error detection is therefore an important part of programming. Error detection At the end of the previous step …
Data loss: how does it happen and what can we do about it?
When you transmit data through the internet, you are sending electrical signals across metal, through plastic, and even through the air, sometimes all the way to the other side of …
The client/server model
I am now going to introduce you to another important model used in networking: the client/server model. The layered model I showed you in the last step guides communication across …
The layered networking model
Throughout this course you will see that networking is full of abstractions. In many cases, the complex details of the protocols and communication systems involved can be overlooked in favour …
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