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Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition Marc J. Rochkind Addison-Wesley Professional ISBN 0131411543 $44.99 Although this book is the second edition of this title, the former edition was published ...
Guru of the Unix gurus A year after his death, the programming community still treasures the influence of Rich Stevens.
In this book excerpt from The Art of UNIX Programming, author Eric S. Raymond discusses the philosophy of Unix, what it got right, and what it got wrong.
Big Nerd Ranch has released “Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming,” a book by Mark Dalrymple and Aaron Hillegass that was previously only available only as a student guide for the US$3,500 Big ...
A full two inches thick and nearly 800 pages long, The Book of R promises to teach you everything you need to be productive in using this language – that includes the basic syntax of the ...
If you want a book on network programming, there are a few classic choices. [Comer’s] TCP/IP books are a great reference but sometimes is too low level. “Unix Networking Programming&#82… ...
The book provides programming exercises for many fundamental concepts in process management, concurrency and communication. These programming exercises are similar to the exercises you would be doing ...
Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.
He was also the author of C Programming Language with Brian Kernighan, a book known as the bible of C programming. Unix became the model for Berkley Systems Distribution (BSD), GNU\Linux, and QNX.