Starting off with Network Programming I thought of discussing basics and the environment for the Network Programming.
Why Network Programming?
With the advancement of Technology and the ground breaking innovations we have come to a point that most of the thing we do are inter connected with each other. This is applicable for programs as well. Most of the programs we use has two modes now a days. Offline and Online. There for we can say that Programs are Network Aware. For example: Playing Dota 2 or LoL online. real time updates in servers, real time stock update etc.
Lets talk about few of the simple things that can be done using a Network Program. A Network Program can retrieve data from a remote location as well as vise versa. Other than that if we talk about it further more, it allows peer-to peer interaction which supports us in chats, messaging, video conferencing etc.Another thing is Spiders in web searching. Let me explain somethings more on the next paragraph.
For some who do SEO the term web Spider (Web Crawler) might not be an alien term. Web spider is a bot used by search engines for their optimization. When user searches something in the search engine it does not go here and there in the WWW searching for the content. What it does is looking in an index and return the results which is more faster. Google does it. So these web spiders go here and there on the WWW and they remember the pages they visited. Then they store it to process later and index. In simply Web Spiders (Web Crawlers) Helps to bring back the web content.
More than this you can learn more on this video done by Matt Cutts.
So I think this is more than enough with an introduction. More Network Programming with next posts. Good Bye for now.