Beej's Guide to Network Programming

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This is good to understand the fundamentals. But in a cross platform software I would use something like libuv since it provides a consistent interface around sockets on all platforms.

This is a throwback for me, big time; this guide singlehandedly helped me through my low-level networks course in college.