Sams Teach Yourself C for Linux Programming in 21 Days

By Don Brewer, Ted Coombs, Jason Coombs

This text aims to enable the reader to program in the Linux operating system and solve real-world Linux programming problems in just 21 days. It is designed to make the transition to Linux programming simple, with numerous examples and a step-by-step approach. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672315971
• ISBN13: 9780672315978
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

This really is the book

This is one of the best programming books I have ever worked with/used. I had a program which I had written in Perl to parse and search unformatted log files. It worked, but very slowly. I picked up this book and thought I would try and rewrite it in C during the holidays. Four days latter it was done. I felt like I had really accomplished something, rewritten my program (which is now over a 100 times faster), and learned...

Full of goodies, plenty of reference-

This book is beyond as good as i said in my last review, well this is an update. After finishing this book, i have an entirely new outlook on why this book is so good! I always find myself looking back for a reminder; if there's something i need a refresh or rescale on, it's got it. it teaches compiling all the way to deployment. This book is desirably the best in my GNU/Linux stash. There are so many extras in this book,...

5 Stars for this Great intro to Programming and C!

This text was my first real encounter with programming (besides, as some others have written, BASIC and LOGO on the Apple II many moons ago...)I am a linux/unix hobbyists always trying to understand more, and this book was a great intro to programming in general. I also highly recomend "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold. I read this a few months before really digging into this...

Right on Target

I have been learning C++ for a while on a linux platform, and started to look at some C stuff in the kernel and other programs to broaden my knowledge. I saw that that although C++ is derived from C it doesn't necessarily do stuff the same way, so I picked up this book. It was right on the mark! and explained some peculiar C stuff right away and in a good easy to read style. It consolidated my knowledge well an added to...

EXCELLENT TUTORIAL

Aside from teaching myself BASIC on my Commodore 64 way-back-when...this is the first programming language I have learned and I owe it all to this book. It is fantastic. Step-by-step, they take you from defining/describing what C is, to writing real-world programs.You would do well to ignore the ignorant reviewers who complain about the title "21 days" (or 24 hours). These people are only looking for excuses. All the...