[ILUG] c book

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:31:35 +0100
  | From: nils Olofsson <nils at eircom.net>
  | 
  | will be up in the 'big smoke' on saturday, and i wanted to buy a good c
  | linux programming book in the book store near trinity (cannot remember
  | the name) any way i looked on amazon.com and found Begining Linux
  | Programming, I just want a good book to start off with ....
  | any Ideas

 Hodges Figgis may be the bookshop yer thinking of.

 it's not clear (to me anyways) if you want a book
 on C, or on the Linux (or GNU?) API; and if the
 API, whether a reference manual or a usage guide.
 (or is it that you want a book on *ix principles?)

 if C, I'd suggest K&R2, the original and still the
 best (IMHO):

   Brian W Kernighan and Dennis M Ritchie,
   «The C Programming Language», 2nd Edition,
   Prentice-Hall, 1988,
   ISBN 0-13-110370-9 (hardback?),
   ISBN 0-13-110362-8 (paperback?).

 doesn't cover C9X, but then again, I don't know of
 any book which does (yet).

 no idea about the API (reference); I just use the
 manual pages, with an occasional look at either the
 source or at the man pages for some commercial *ix
 (as man pages and doc in general seems, IMHO, to be
 one of Linux and GNU's serious weak points).

 as to how to _use_ the *ix API from C, the Stevens
 books are quite good («Advanced UNIX Programming»
 or something like that, plus the networking ones).

cheers!
	-blf-
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