What subject or area can show the relationship between programming and networking?

Hi I am stud开发者_如何学运维ying Software Engineering, and I have to do a case study of relationships between network and programming, but I don't know anything about networking, I don't know where to start.

If anyone could help me out to point me to the right direction, would be great!.

Thanks.

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I don't think you need to know about networking in any detail. I'd believe that you are being asked to think about how programming for a network environment generates specific conditions that need to be coded for, such as disconnected operation, bandwidth issues, and intermittant connection (how code needs to cope with an unreliable connection). I hope that helps.