Network Programming Study Guide

An Introduction to Python Network Programming

By: Tim Bower

This Network Programming Study Guide provides notes and information intended to guide students towards successful completion of the Network Programming (CMST 355) on-line class offered by K–State at Salina, which is the campus of Kansas State University located in Salina, Kansas.

The text book for this class is Foundation of Python Network Programming by John Goerzen, Apress, 2004. All references in this guide to The Text Book are to Goerzen’s text. See the Preface to the Network Programming Study Guide for some comments about the book and this study guide.

Note

• Network Programming is a summer, online class taught at K–State at Salina by Tim Bower. If you need to continue your education in the Computer Science area and would like to learn how to do Network Programming using Python, please consider enrolling in the class next summer.
• Full access to the video lectures and demonstrations is through K-State Online, which requires enrollment in the class. Some of the demonstration type videos are available on the Python Network Programming Video Series on ShowMeDo.
• Access to the notes in this study guide is made available by the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. You are free to use these notes, but if you use any of the material as part of your own work, please give me credit where due.

Contents:

• 1. Administrative Information
  • 1.1. Preface to the Network Programming Study Guide
  • 1.2. Acknowledgments
  • 1.3. Welcome to Network Programming!
  • 1.4. A Word About the Text Book Examples
  • 1.5. Wing-101
  • 1.6. Starting a Python Application from Windows Explorer
  • 1.7. Installation of Python Packages with Setuptools
• 2. The Python Programming Language
  • 2.1. Introduction to Python
  • 2.2. Control Constructs
  • 2.3. Python Data Containers
  • 2.4. Using and Generating Python Sequences
  • 2.5. Python’s Input / Output Facilities
  • 2.6. Organizing Python Source Code
  • 2.7. Making Python Programs Robust
  • 2.8. Python’s Built-in Functions and Standard Library
  • 2.9. What Does That Line of Python Code Do?
• 3. Topic 1 – Programming with Sockets
  • 3.1. Networking Review
  • 3.2. Introduction to Sockets Programming
  • 3.3. Programming Assignment 1 – Simple Application Layer Protocol
• 4. Network Client Development
• 5. Topic 2 – Programs using DNS
  • 5.1. Programming and DNS
  • 5.2. Programming Assignment 2 – DNS MX Record Lookups
• 6. Topic 3 – Programming for the Web
  • 6.1. Retrieving Web Pages with HTTP
  • 6.2. Parsing HTML Data
  • 6.3. Programming Assignment 3 – Parsing HTML Web Pages
  • 6.4. Documentation of the wxWeather Program
  • 6.5. XML and XML-RPC
• 7. Topic 4 - Electronic Mail
  • 7.1. Sending E-mail
  • 7.2. Programming Assignment 4 - E-mail File Mailer
• 8. Topic 5 - SSL
  • 8.1. Data Encryption using SSL
  • 8.2. Programming SSL
• 9. Topic 6 – Developing Network Server Programs
  • 9.1. The Skipped Server Chapters
  • 9.2. Multi-threaded Network Server Programming
  • 9.3. Asynchronous Network Server Programming
  • 9.4. A Multi-threaded Chat Server
  • 9.5. Programming Assignment 5 – Add BRB feature to Multi-threaded Chat Server
  • 9.6. Documentation of the wxchat and Chat Server Programs
• 10. Bibliography

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page