My favorite programming book is O'Reilly's Practical C++ it explains how to program in Unix, Windows, and several different compilers and explains all of the basics... incombination with the book you already have you should be able to get on the right track. James Boeck >From: Ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [expert] Beginning Programming For Linux >Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:41:36 -0500 > >Hello, > >I just picked up a book called Beginning Linux Programming from Wrox. I >have >just started reading this book, and there are some questions that I think >they >assume I know, but don't. I need to find a book or a webpage that explains >several basic things. Like why does every file in C start with #! include? > >For the most part this book looks to be very useful as it is very thick, >and >uses a more conversational tone rather than technical, but it doesn't cover >some of the raw basics. Any suggestions would be useful. > >Also I am going to try emacs. Do I need to learn elisp to do shell >programming, which the book covers, or can I still use (I think) C? > >thanks, >Ivan > >Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: >Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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