From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 7:31:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3638E37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:31:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AADCA43E75 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:31:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fh31415@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 10613 invoked by uid 0); 26 Sep 2002 14:31:53 -0000 Received: from a087056.adsl.hansenet.de (HELO host1.myhost.mydomain) (213.191.87.56) by mail.gmx.net (mp016-rz3) with SMTP; 26 Sep 2002 14:31:53 -0000 Received: from host1.myhost.mydomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by host1.myhost.mydomain (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8QEWgHq000441 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:32:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from azure@host1.myhost.mydomain) Received: (from azure@localhost) by host1.myhost.mydomain (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g8QEWg9A000440 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:32:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:32:42 +0200 From: Frank Heitmann To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Books (OT) Message-ID: <20020926163242.A382@host1.myhost.mydomain> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. I have used FreeBSD for about 6-7 weeks now (great system; I have to admit that I like UNIX much more than Windows) and now that I got a little better with the system in general I wanted to start to program for it, so that I will hopefully be able to help. But as I read through some code I noticed that my C/C++ needs some refreshment and improvement (especially OOP) first. (I haven't really programmed for a year or so, because I first started to study Physics, before I realized that Computer Science (or "Informatik" here in Germany) is what interests me much more. Before that I have programmed a lot for Windows.) The books I have looked at are: C How To Program C++ How To Program (both from Prentice Hall/Deitel) and: C Programming Language (K&R) C++ Programming Language (Stroustrup) The two from Deitel look very good to me (I like the summary and exercises at the end of each chapter and I like the whole layout). The last two also seemed to be very good, but I believe they are more useful as a reference than for learning?! Maybe someone has them on his/her bookshelf and can give a comment? Oh, and sorry for being off-topic, but these mailinglists have rapidily become my only connection to the outside world :) P.S. I have just seen in the handbook that there is a book "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Unix Operating System". Is it useful in connection with the "Developers Handbook" to understand kernel internals? (Hey, I am at least not absolutly off-topic now :) Cheers, Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message