Spell checkers are useful utility programs often bundled with text editors.
computer science
Description
Project Overview
Spell checkers are useful utility programs often bundled with text editors. In this assignment, you'll create a networked spell check server. The purpose of the assignment is to gain some exposure and practical experience with multi-threaded programming and the synchronization problems that go along with it, as well as with writing programs that communicate across networks.
You'll learn a bit about network sockets in lecture and lab. Much more detailed
information is available in Chapter 11 of Bryant and O'Hallaron, and Chapters 57-62
in Kerrisk (see Canvas Files: Additional Textbook References). Beej's
Guide and BinaryTides' Socket Programming Tutorial are potentially useful online
resources.
For now, the high-level view of network sockets is that they are communication
channels between pairs of processes, not unlike pipes. They differ from pipes in that
a pair of processes communicating via a socket may reside on different machines,
and that the channel is bi-directiona
