Networking is a way of sending and receiving data between programs, which work on a single or different computers and mobile devices. Using networking, it is possible to split a complex project into several programs working together.
There are at least three reasons to create distributed projects:
The first reason is splitting to obtain better performance. For example, when creating a big interactive wall with cameras and projectors, it is possible to use two computers. The first computer (tracker) will process data from cameras and send the result to the second computer (render), which will render the picture and output it to projectors.
The second reason is creating a heterogeneous project using different development languages. For example, consider a project that generates a real-time visualization of data captured from the Web. It is easy to capture and analyze the data from the Web using a programming language like Python, but it is hard to create...