Chapter 18. A Practical Network Project
Whether your brain is smarting from the last chapter or whether it got smarter, it's time to take a rest. Rather than cover new material in this chapter, you are going to have some fun applying the knowledge that you have learned throughout this book. It's important to have a little fun after so much learning effort has been expended.
In this chapter, you will
Apply TCP/IP stream sockets to download stock quotations from the Internet
Apply UDP broadcasting to deliver stock quotes to your LAN
Use a UDP client program to receive the LAN broadcast stock quotations
Problem Statement
It is always a good practice to state the problem before a solution is presented. So, here is the problem that you are going to solve ...
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