In need of a decent C++ socket tutorial

I've googled for hours and searched around for a C++ winsocket tutorial. But the ones I've found either aren't explained, or they use advanced techniques that I'm not familiar with. I really want to know how to make an IRC bot that can give and take commands, if that's any help. I've seen Kiyoura's Advanced C++ tutorial with the sockets at the end, but he doesn't explain the last part so it's useless.

So basically a link to any easily understandable tutorial that will eventually help me to create an IRC bot would be greatly appreciated.

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i've been told that this one is pretty good to start with

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html

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Also thanks for the links guys.

ShapeShifters wrote: i've been told that this one is pretty good to start with

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html

It's all described in Linux, except for the 2 paragraphs about windows. Will it still work?