One of the things any aspiring security professional or network admin should know is - what is exactly a socket and what do they do?. This is tutorial is a different approach that I have been toying with on how to best explain to beginning IT or security students who are just beginning, but have no experience using "low-level" languages like C. One of my esteemed professor's once said: "God intended us to program in C" and I believe that today's programmers should begin with a language which will teach them responsibility.