New Skill Forged: Foundations of Python Network Programming

Mar 27, 2026 Skill Forge web

New Skill Forged

Foundations of Python Network Programming by John Goerzen. 500 pages.

Python network programming fundamentals: TCP/UDP socket clients/servers, DNS resolution, HTTP/web client and HTML parsing, SMTP/POP/IMAP email, FTP, database clients (DB-API 2.0), SSL/TLS, and concurrency (forking/threading/select/asyncio).

What this skill teaches Claude to do:

Build TCP/UDP clients and servers from raw sockets with proper framing
Implement select()-based multiplexed servers handling many connections without threads
Query DNS for A/MX/TXT/PTR records using dnspython
…and 3 more

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