[mdlug] What to give a Software Programmer interested in Linux

[Robert Adkins]

	There's a good book called "The Linux Programmers Guide" or
something to that effect. (A google search appears to only contain links to
an online "book" that is similar, yet not the same as what the book I am
talking about.

	I picked it up to sharped my bash scripting skills. It covers
several Linux shell scripting languages with both theoreticals and examples.
It also covers sed/awk, tcl/tk, delves into some C/C++. It's mostly a
surface brushing of topics and covers some basics of internal Linux
commands.

	If anything, it could be a good help to learn how elements in Linux
interact with one another, which should be a good stepping off point.

	Hopefully, your friend's boss isn't expecting any kind of serious
competency with Linux within a few short weeks. It could take more than a
handful of months just to become familiar enough that some things start
becoming second nature and then years on top of that before it all becomes
natural, to the point that your friend will just be able to do things and
come up with answers for problems/issues without even thinking about it.

	I'll see if I can pull out that book this evening and email off the
ISBN information to the list.

-Rob



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Ingles, Raymond
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 9:20 AM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] What to give a Software Programmer 
> interested in Linux
> 
> > From: Michael Corral
> 
> > But if the goal is to do actual Linux programming, then learning 
> > things like Emacs, vi, bash, and various command-line 
> utilities (grep, 
> > sort, sed, awk, etc.) is important, IMHO. Being comfortable on the 
> > command line and "gluing" various tools together is still a 
> big part 
> > of the Linux/UNIX "way", certainly for programmers. Emacs is a good 
> > way of getting introduced to all that, with all the ways it has of 
> > interacting with the OS (and other things:).
> 
>  If the goal is indeed to do Linux programming, then Eric 
> Raymond's book "The Art of Unix Programming" would be quite valuable:
> 
>  http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/
> 
>  The whole book is available online, or you can buy it from 
> various places.
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
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