Thread: Bot

My first post. I would like to write a poker bot program, that is - a program that will interact with an online poker site and react with their interface. This is at least a 2 year project mainly due to my lack of technical knowledge - but I'm willing to put in the hours to learn whatever is necessary.
I know C++ fairly well, but that's about it.
No windows programming experience. After searching the web, my main problem is that I still don't know where to begin. For example, I want to know how to "listen" and interpert the data at various ports. Where do I start? Is this window's programming, socket programming (whatever that is), or other? Thanks for any help.

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Originally Posted by Kermi3

6. Messages relating to cracking, (erroneously called "hacking" by many), copyright violations, or other illegal activities will be deleted.

These bots are against the rules of practically every online poker site - and they are therefore against the rules of this forum. Incidentally, you posted this in the wrong section anyway.