Client / Server programming - generic steps to start a server or a client

Client/server network programming requires a server running on one machine to listen and answer requests and one or more clients running either on the same machine or different machines connected to the server through a network.

Independent from your operating system and programming language, you'll have to follow the following basic steps to create and run a server (the function refers to the unix naming convention; almost all languages have interfaces to them):

1. Create a socket with socket
2. Bind the socket to a port address with bind
3. Listen to the socket at the port address with listen
4. Accept client connections with accept

1. Create a socket with socket
2. Connect the socket to the remote machine with connect