Chapter 34. Opportunistic Development

There are some among us who love to write program code. Others are able to write code but do not particularly enjoy doing so. Most of this section of the book (Part V, “Programming Linux”) is dedicated to the first group—those who love to code and want to know how to get started using their favorite tools in Ubuntu. However, it also applies to those of us who just want to scratch a specific itch by coding up a quick program to do something useful and make it available to other Ubuntu users, but who are not interested in learning how to become ...

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