I am a student with kewl knowledge of c language upto my level it means i know something wanna learn everything i know all basics like linked list,pointers etc and have a good hand in <graphics.h> now i wanna learn socket programming and registry editing through c language if anyone can give me some link where i can find some cool stuff free of cost and learn step by step then i will be highly obliged .

Please post ya reply as soon as possible and special request to senior members for helping as they can help me in becoming a harmless programmer.

Of course, my first response would be to tell you to go use a search engine. There are two problems with that:

1. You have already used a search engine, right? In fact, most of the people reading this thread probably found gidforums in the first place by googling something.

2. If someone does use a search engine for this topic, it just might point them back to this page, which tells them to use a search engine (thereby becoming entangled in yet another one of life's frustrating little infinite recursions).

So here are a couple of suggestions. These are just for getting started. You might find links that are more appropriate for you, but ya gotta start somewhere.

Many people's motherlode of sockets programming information starts here:
Beej's Guide to Network Programming

Now the problem is that network programming necessarily involves functions that not are part of the Standard C Library, and therefore the specific source code is different for different compilers (which #include files contain prototypes for the functions, for example).

Beej's examples usually run OK on Linux systems, and I have found that many that I am interested in run OK on my Windows XP system when I use the cygwin/gcc compiler.

Since you asked about registry, I assume that you are interested in Windows systems, and Windows API functions, so you may require something that will run with Microsoft compilers (or, maybe Borland). Here is a link to a thread where I took an example that someone posted from Beej's and modified it for Borland and Microsoft Windows compilers: http://www.gidforums.com/t-7429.html#10 Scroll up to post number 4 to see the original Beej's code.

You can read more about the "WSA..." stuff on msdn.


By the way, I don't think there is any way that anyone who writes programs that edit the registry could ever be considered harmless. (Just a little joke, folks.)

Now, I have never programmed anything do do with registry stuff, so maybe someone else here can give you some specific hints or links to tutorials. I would probably start with msdn and search there.

Regards,

Dave

Thanks for giving quick response to me and providing me cool links for study material now i have started and i m gonna ask plethora of questions hope you guys are gonna help me and if i will do this then i may gonna create something very cool.

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