Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 16:36:33 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: frankd@yoda.fdt.net (Frank) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Book recommendations Message-ID: <199603140606.QAA07326@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960313191425.185A-100000@Kryten.nina.com> from "Frank" at Mar 13, 96 07:17:57 pm
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Frank stands accused of saying: > > Can anyone recommend a good book to get a beginning UNIX programmer > started? I have a little experience with BASIC and Clipper for DOS > applications, but I have totally abandoned DOS for FreeBSD :-) That depends on which language you want to work in 8) The traditional answer would be : "The C programming language" Kernighan and Ritchie ISBN 0-13-110362-8 "Advanced programming in the Unix environment" W Richard Stevens ISBN 0-201-56317-7 and maybe "Unix network programming" W Richard Stevens ISBN 0-13-949876-1 However, if you're just looking for a language to muck around in, and perhaps do some easy X stuff, I _strongly_ recommend Tcl/Tk. "Tcl and the Tk toolkit" John K Ousterhout ISBN 0-201-63337-X ...and in particular the TclX dialect. This gives you easy GUI programming, networking and just about everything (apart from fast math 8) that you could possibly want in a language. Being interpreted, it's also nice and easy to work with. > Frank -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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