In this session, students will work together in a guided, collaborative workshop to learn how to write a client/server network program, and build upon that base to develop a more robust peer to peer chat implementation with remote procedure call mechanisms.

This session is intended to teach the Twisted event loop model, the basics of writing a Twisted Protocol object, and the mental model of how to deal with asynchronous systems in Twisted.

Students are expected to:

1. Be familiar with the Python language
2. Be familiar with passing callables, closures, and other intermediate to advanced concepts
3. Familiarity with writing web services a plus

Students are required to have a virtualenv environment configured, with Twisted v13 or higher installed through pip. Use of system packages will cause issues, and pip provides the most consistent packages for our needs.