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Beej’s Guide to Networking Concepts (via) Beej’s Guide to Network Programming is a legendary tutorial on network programming in C, continually authored and updated by Brian “Beej” Hall since 1995.
This is NOT that. Beej’s Guide to Networking Concepts is brand new—started in March 2023—and illustrates a whole bunch of networking concepts using Python instead of C.
From the forward: “Is it Beej’s Guide to Network Programming in Python? Well, kinda, actually. The C book is more about how C’s (well, Unix’s) network API works. And this book is more about the concepts underlying it, using Python as a vehicle.” # 30th January 2024, 10:08 pm
Find a level of abstraction that works for what you need to do. When you have trouble there, look beneath that abstraction. You won’t be seeing how things really work, you’ll be seeing a lower-level abstraction that could be helpful. Sometimes what you need will be an abstraction one level up. Is your Python loop too slow? Perhaps you need a C loop. Or perhaps you need numpy array operations.
You (probably) don’t need to learn C.
— Ned Batchelder # 24th January 2024, 6:25 pm