Real Life (yet simple enough for a beginer) Example of TCP and/or UDP Sockets

Question

I have been attempting to learn tcp/udp for so long now, I am on the brink of giving up completely and never attempting it again, I have read every tutorial there is but can never get anything to work. Tutorials either stop once they tell me how to connect and dont explain how it can be used or do not provide enough source code. Is there an application who's source code I can access that is simple enough for a beginner to understand yet functional enough to teach me? Any language will do but I do best in ruby or vb.net. Thanks in advance, ell.

Answer 1

Here is a little client-server example in Ruby to get you started. Socket level programming is a large area. You may have more success in learning if you ask multiple specific questions than a single very general one.

Answer 2

here's a tutorial:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Reference/Objects/Socket