We decided to a bit of socket-level network programming as part of the systems programming study group at Recurse Center. The canonical text would appear to be the Unix Network Programming book, but Beej's guide also came highly recommended -- with the added benefit of being quicker to get started and freely available online:
It turns out that following the correct order of syscalls per Beej's incantations is relatively straightforward... yielding very simple toy servers in short order:
On the other hand, some fundamentals of C programming still elude me, e.g. I couldn't work out how to refactor the creation of sockets into a standalone function due to some (presumably basic) pointer issues...
