# beejjorgensen/bgnet

Beej's Guide to Network Programming source

Repository: https://github.com/beejjorgensen/bgnet
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bgnet
Language: HTML
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-04-18T22:24:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 78, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3182, "days_push": 137, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1237, forks 167 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:05.164691+00:00)

## What it is
The source repository for Beej's Guide to Network Programming, a well-known free tutorial on socket programming in C. It contains the guide's text and build tooling (Pandoc/XeLaTeX) to produce HTML and PDF editions.

## Use cases
- learn socket programming in C
- understand TCP and UDP networking basics
- find a beginner tutorial for Berkeley sockets
- translate the network programming guide to another language
- build the guide as HTML or PDF from source

## When to choose
- you want a free, beginner-friendly introduction to network programming with sockets
- you need a reference for C socket APIs like getaddrinfo, bind, and select
- you want to contribute typo fixes or produce translations of the guide

## When to avoid
- you need a networking library or code to include in your project rather than a tutorial
- you want advanced or modern async networking topics beyond basic sockets
- you need a formally licensed or maintained software package - the repo has no license

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: networking, tutorials, programming-languages
- platform: cross-platform, cli
- tags: sockets, c-programming, network-programming, guide, book, pandoc, latex

## Member repositories
- beejjorgensen/bgnet (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:05.164691+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:21:51.246813+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/beejjorgensen/bgnet (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:05.164691+00:00, sha a4d025101f08)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.