Programming Books

The Best Unix Books

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   2 Rankings

   Unix Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads

   by Kay Robbins, Steve Robbins
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   2 Rankings

   Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

   by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago

   This book describes the programming interface to the Unix system--the system call interface and many of the functions provided in the standard C library. It is intended for anyone writing programs that run under Unix.

   Like most operating systems, Unix provides numerous services to the programs that are running -- open a file, read a file, sta...
3. 

   2 Rankings

   Unix Network Programming, Vol. 1: The Sockets Networking API

   by W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew M. Rudoff, Richard W. Stevens
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   2 Rankings

   The Unix Philosophy

   by Mike Gancarz
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   2 Rankings

   The Art of UNIX Programming

   by Eric S. Raymond
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   1 Ranking

   Linux and the Unix Philosophy

   by Mike Gancarz

   "The concept of Linux and the GNU project, while appearing to be the 'next step' of the Unix Philosophy, is only the return from a wayward path. Everything stated in the Unix Philosophy's first edition is just as true today, perhaps even more so. The addition of source code availability allows you to see exactly how these masters of code created...
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   1 Ranking

   Understanding the Linux Kernel

   by Daniel Plerre Bovet, Marco Cesati
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   1 Ranking

   The UNIX Programming Environment

   by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

   This slim classic shows why programmers love developing under Unix.