Book description
Beginning Linux Programming, Fourth Edition continues its unique approach to teaching UNIX programming in a simple and structured way on the Linux platform. Through the use of detailed and realistic examples, students learn by doing, and are able to move from being a Linux beginner to creating custom applications in Linux. The book introduces fundamental concepts beginning with the basics of writing Unix programs in C, and including material on basic system calls, file I/O, interprocess communication (for getting programs to work together), and shell programming. Parallel to this, the book introduces the toolkits and libraries for working with user interfaces, from simpler terminal mode applications to X and GTK+ for graphical user interfaces. Advanced topics are covered in detail such as processes, pipes, semaphores, socket programming, using MySQL, writing applications for the GNOME or the KDE desktop, writing device drivers, POSIX Threads, and kernel programming for the latest Linux Kernel.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Getting Started
- Chapter 2: Shell Programming
- Chapter 3: Working with Files
- Chapter 4: The Linux Environment
- Chapter 5: Terminals
- Chapter 6: Managing Text-Based Screens with curses
- Chapter 7: Data Management
- Chapter 8: MySQL
- Chapter 9: Development Tools
- Chapter 10: Debugging
- Chapter 11: Processes and Signals
- Chapter 12: POSIX Threads
- Chapter 13: Inter-Process Communication: Pipes
- Chapter 14: Semaphores, Shared Memory, and Message Queues
- Chapter 15: Sockets
- Chapter 16: Programming GNOME Using GTK+
- Chapter 17: Programming KDE Using Qt
- Chapter 18: Standards for Linux
- Index
- Advertisement
- Wiley End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Beginning Linux Programming, 4th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2007
- Publisher(s): Wrox
- ISBN: 9780470147627
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