On Friday 26 April 2002 2:34 pm, Michael Garabedian wrote:
Now if you had to pick a book or manual that would be the best for a beginner, not totally new, I can understand some code that has already been written, I just want to make my own.
Bash scripting http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/ Some of Eric Raymond's writing on the subject: http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/taoup/chapter3.html http://tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html IMHO If you are intending to administrate then: shell scripting (bash or sh) sed & awk perl/python/tcl/ruby expect Developing apps? C C++ Java QT/GTK+ For books, I would take a look at the ORA ones: Bash (Fish) Learning Perl (Llama) Expect (Chimp) QT (Toucan) Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo (not an ORA one, so no animal for you, but you can have a link instead: http://www.acceleratedcpp.com/ ) HTH Jon