Discover how you can create networked applications in Python by using sockets. Supported by Google. Build your practical network application skills and understanding. On this course from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, you’ll learn how to create programs that communicate over the internet.
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You’ll explore the principles that industry professionals use when programming for networks, and learn how sockets are used to abstract the complexities of the internet.
In the final week, you’ll design and create your own protocol for a networked quiz that you’ll program using Python. This final challenge will help you to consolidate and apply your learning from the course.
Syllabus
Week 1: Sockets
Week 2: Dealing with lossy communications
Week 3: Designing and coding protocols
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Describe the layers of the TCP/IP model
- Produce Python programs using sockets
- Demonstrate a knowledge of the life cycle of a socket
- Compare reliable and unreliable communication
- Develop a protocol of your own
-Produce programs that use both TCP and UDP
- Investigate the causes of network errors
- Describe methods of correcting errors
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for teachers who deliver lessons on network principles in the classroom, at GCSE level or equivalent.
To take part in this course, you will need experience in the following areas of programming:
- Using functions, including parameters and returns
- Using multiple data types
- Debugging Python programs
It may also be beneficial to have some experience with classes and methods.
