Additional/Recommended Texts

• Peter van der Linden
  Expert C Programming
  Prentice Hall 1994
  ISBN-10: 0131774298 | ISBN-13: 9780131774292
  A great book by a very experienced C programmer and compiler writer. If you know enough C to start asking about the tricky bits, this is the book for you! And he's pretty funny.


• Samual P. Harbison and Guy L. Steele
  C: A Reference Manual, 5^th edition
  Prentice Hall 2002
  ISBN-10: 013089592X | ISBN-13: 9780130895929
  You guessed it - a reference manual!


• K. N. King
  C Programming, A Modern Approach, 2^nd edition
  Norton & Company 2002
  ISBN 0-393-96945-2
  The text used by both U. of T. and Waterloo for their C courses.


• W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago
  Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment 2^nd edition
  Addison-Wesley 2005
  ISBN-10: 0321525949 | ISBN-13: 9780321525949
  A look at the UNIX/LINUX/POSIX system call interface. Another classic.


• Robert Mecklenburg
  Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3^rd edition
  O'Reilly 2004 ISBN-10: 0-596-00610-1 | ISBN-13: 978-0-596-00610-5
  Far more than we'll cover in this course.


• Arnold Robbins
  GDB Pocket Reference
  O'Reilly 2005
  ISBN 0-596-10027-2
  As the title indicates, a pocket reference to the GNU Debugger


• Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah & Linda Lamb
  Learning the Vi and Vim Editors, 7^th edition
  O'Reilly 2008
  ISBN: 978-0-596-52983-3
  My preference for editing programs.


• J. Seward, N. Nethercote, J. Weidendorfer
  Valgrind 3.3 Advanced Debugging and Profiling for GNU/Linux applications
  Network Theory Ltd.
  book's website
  Note the link to an online html version at the very bottom of the book's webpage - it's not necessary to acutally purchase this book; use the online version if you like.
  ISBN: 0-9546120-5-1 (ISBN-13: 978-0-9546120-5-4)
  
  OR just go to www.valgrind.org


• And try this website: bash documentation