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Syllabus
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Module 1: Python "Review"

Notes

Module 2: Introduction

Notes and lab assignment

Module 3: Sockets

Notes and lab assignment

Module 4: Network data and errors

Notes

Module 5: TLS/SSL

Notes

Module 6: Server Architecture

Notes and lab assignment

Module 7: DNS

Notes

Module 8: Database Clients

Notes

Module 9: Remote Procedure Call

Notes and lab assignment

Module 10: Midterm Review and Exam

Guide

Module 11: HTTP

Notes

Module 12: Web Applications

Notes and lab assignments

Module 13: Software Transactional Memory (STM)

Reading and notes

Module 14: Screen Scraping

Revised Reading and notes

Module 15: Caches, Message Queues, and Map-Reduce

Revised Reading and notes

Final Review and Exam

Revised Guide

Reference

Python Style Guidelines

Coding Standards (from INFO I210)

Recreation

Internet Protocols—RFC's, etc.

RFC Editor (official publisher of the Internet Requests for Comment)
Internet RFCs (OSU, hypertext, searchable)
IEN Internet Engineering Notes (OSU)
Webopedia: Online Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms

Textbook

John Goerzen and Brandon Rhodes Foundations of Python Network Programming, second edition. Apress, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-3003-8
Publisher's site for this book includes downloadable source code.
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Campus bookstore

Lab Guide

IUE Linux Lab Manual
ROSCO Richmond Open Source Community

Python

Python.org
Python 3 Tutorial, by Guido van Rossum.
Python 3 HOWTOs
Python 3 Library Reference, by Guido van Rossum.

XML

XML Resources

Not Smoking

Programming can be stressful. Does stress make you want to smoke? ACS Guide to Quitting Smoking (why and how)

Articles

The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. A game developer sorts out the trade-offs between TCP and UDP, and between client/server and peer-to-peer systems.

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