i risk being laughed at with this but here goes. i found the book "Teach
Yourself Linux Programming in 24 Hours" by Warren Gay actually quite
helpful. note that as far as i know, there aren't any local copies. the one
i'm using is from a CTO, who's from Silicon Valley. it's very much readable.
i was up and running/coding in semaphores, message queues, signals and
shared memory in a short time. it gives nice pointers too.
as a student and instructor, i found Dietels' "C How to Program" good.
that's my "learning" book. it's textbook style, complete with questions at
the end of every chapter. due to it's popularity, they've extended to C++
How To Program and Java How to Program, the last which is the text book of
the CS Majors.
if you want to go to C++ Object Oriented programming, i mean, really use the
features, templates, inheritance, objects, etc, Peter Coad and Jill Nicola's
"Object Oriented Programming" is also good reading.
Tanenbaum is good with OS Design, though if you want something more recent
you might want Applied OS Concepts by Silverschatz et al. there're reprints
of this in National. they have chapters on linux and java, and the
publication year is 2000.
all of these books are not platform/compiler specific, sticking to the ANSI
standards as much as they can.
hth.
vince.
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