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I guys, I'm trying to do some projects with IoT, and gueting started with esp8266, but I am very unfamiliar with network programming. I've played around with Arduino and python, but never had to deal with network concepts like, TCP, UCP, sockets... I'm looking for some guidance in order to be able to understand the code scripts I found online, because when I look into example codes, some of then seen Chinese to me due to the fact I am not familiar with networking...
I wish you could help me light up in some knowledge about the subject, thank you