{"id":1620,"date":"2011-06-10T02:55:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T02:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2011-06-10T02:55:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T02:55:45","slug":"book-log-beginning-linux-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"Book Log – Beginning Linux Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning Linux Programming, 4th Edition<\/em> by Neil Matthew and Richard Stones<\/p>\n

I don’t think I’ve ever read a technical book from cover to cover.\u00a0 Generally, I skim through, find the bits I’m interested in, read any other bits I need to in order understand the bits I’m interested in, and then put it on the shelf for future reference.<\/p>\n

This one, I read cover to cover.<\/p>\n

This book answered a lot of questions I’ve struggled with on understanding threads, processes, pipes, and other programming buzzwords I’ve only comprehended in vague, abstract ways previously.<\/p>\n

What helped was also taking a 4 day class in Embedded Linux at work, which was awesome as well.\u00a0 I’m totally writing some C apps, with GUI and everything.<\/p>\n

The Linux teacher told us that he doesn’t really consider anyone a Linux guy unless they a) have a Linux machine at home and b) have successfully compiled a kernel.<\/p>\n

I have another Linux class coming up in a couple weeks.\u00a0 I plan on being able to call myself a Linux guy by then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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