the last day of sem 5

this is the last day of sem 5 ( still 2 days left for the internals) . seniors had been to our class and had a photo session. Had lots of fun scribbling on their shirts( a usual thing with the final years on the last day ).
Being the end of the semester , i ve lots of work pending to be done . lot more packages to be done.
Today sat for a while designing the UI for the unix package( chess game ) . The remaining work is to integrate the UI with the backend , i m making a client server application out of this , so that 2 players could play . Also had some fun with the glade UI designer , a fantastic tool ofcourse .
today learnt a little bit of socket programming . have a look at this link :
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/courses/sysprog/sockets/sock.html

unix package

started off the unix package today . This is a two player chess game which uses sockets .
I successfully completed my tests with the sockets and they are fantastic , very easy to learn. I created a sample chat application for the testing purpose. This uses the STREAM socket .
The next phase involves the UI development. i think this is the tedious process. Glade is the one im using for UI design for gtk . And glade is wonderful for creating the UI . it creates code on the fly . And now its just the integration work to be done .

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