From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 15 08:14:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26792 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:14:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA26787 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA04988; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:13:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:13:23 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199809151513.IAA04988@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: nvp@mediaone.net, Scott_Graves@sealand.com Subject: Re: Learning C on FreeBSD... Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980915002739.10845.qmail@inhaler.noopy.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: nvp@mediaone.net >Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 19:27:39 -0500 (EST) >> Can someone give me a few books which will help me to learn C on FreeBSD... >> I'd like to start actually understanding how to design programs for >> FreeBSD.... The last programming language I used was PASCAL over 3 years >> ago... Any suggestions would be great... > - The C Programming Language or "The C Bible" by Kerningham and > Ritchie (publisher forgotten). If you intend to work with C > and you need a little bit of direction, some algorithms to > get started with, lots of Unixisms (stat'ing files, reading > directories, file I/O, etc), and a huge number of Unix (C) > functions and their parameters/return values, I'd definitely > suggest getting this book. I think that it's in 2nd edition. That's "Kernighan"; publisher is Prentice-Hall. Of the books mentioned, it would be my first choice. (Brian Kernighan is credited/blamed(*) for christening the OS that Ken Thompson wrote & Dennis Ritchie helped port to C (a language that ritchie wrote, based on "B", which was based on "BCPL") "UNIX".) * Ritchie, D. M., "The Evolution of the UNIX Time-sharing System", in AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories Techincal Journal, Vol. 63, No. 8, October 1984. See the last sentence of section II, "Origins". david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message