1. Research Socket Programming in C/C++ under Windows and Linux. Familiarize yourself with network programming using sockets by studying some of the many examples available online. 2. Write a simple client/server application where the server receives a message (a string of characters) sent by the client over the network and simply sends it back to the client. Here, you need to write two separate programs: the server program will run on one computer and the client program will run on another computer in the network. The server program is started first and all it does is wait for a message from the client. When the client sends a message and the server receives the message, it simply sends it back (echo) to client which will display it.