killasmurf86 said:A little off topic, but I have "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment" 2nd edition by W.Richard Stevens and Stephen A.Rago
Addison-Wesley
This is great book for userland programming bough on Linux and FreeBSD.
It talks about Posix and Single unix specification all the time...
And tells what things are different on all 4 platforms (Linux, FreeBSD, MacOsX 10.3 and Solaris 9)
I totally love this book, and would recommend to take a look at it
LateNiteTV said:i have the same book (advanced programming in the unix env.) and i recommend it.
youre going to need to have some prior knowledge of c.
twantnix3 said:would C in 21 days help me?
ckester said:For learning C, there's really nothing better than the original: The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie.
In my opinion, if the K&R book doesn't make sense to you, or if you find it too difficult, you're probably not cut out to be a C programmer anyway.
Oh, and add me to the list of people recommending the Stevens and Rago book. It's not the sort of thing you sit down and read straight through, but it's definitely something you'll want nearby when you're programming for any Unix platform.
You program in C, you buy this book. It's that simple.ckester said:For learning C, there's really nothing better than the original: The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie.
ckester said:In my opinion, if the K&R book doesn't make sense to you, or if you find it too difficult, you're probably not cut out to be a C programmer anyway.
trev said:A tad harsh. I've not seen the latest incarnation of the K&R book, but the one around when I was learning C in the early 80s was terse , obtuse and rarely recommended for beginners.