Introduction Hi, I’m Glenn Fiedler and welcome to Networking for Game Programmers.
In this article we start with the most basic aspect of network programming: sending and receiving data over the network. This is perhaps the simplest and most basic part of what network programmers do, but still it is quite intricate and non-obvious as to what the best course of action is.
You have most likely heard of sockets, and are probably aware that there are two main types: TCP and UDP.