Re: my reading plan need suggestion

From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_inprovide.com)
Date: 06/07/05 

Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:34:22 +0200

"jessewoo@gmail.com" <jessewoo@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I want to be an Unix programer. Here is a list of books I plan to read
> one after another. Before reading these books, I know BASIC, C, ASM
> and HTML/CSS, but haven't got any actual sofeware developing
> experiences. Currently I reached the stage of 4, reading the last
> chapter of sed & awk. I have finished the first 3 books in one month,
> planning to finish the rest before the end of this summer holiday.

Just remember that reading alone won't get you far. You have to play
around with the machine, do some experimenting.

> Here is the list:
> 1, Unix unleashed
> 2, Learning The Bash Shell [O'Reilly]
> 3, Learning the vi Editor [O'Reilly]
> 4, sed & awk [O'Reilly]
> 5, Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
> 6, (on N/Troff *Tex and the like)

#6 isn't really required unless you need to write such documents.

> 7, Unix in a Nutshell [O'Reilly]

Throw in "Learning Perl" here.

> 8, Programming Perl [O'Reilly]
> 9, Unix Power Tools [O'Reilly]
> 10, Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
> 11, UNIX Network Programming [Addison Wesley]
> 12, TCP/IP Illustrated 1-2 [Addison Wesley]
>
> Is the list wisely listed? Does it contain one or two that aren't
> worth reading or does it miss any essential books? After finishing the

Depending on what sort of programming you want to do, something more
specialized might be useful. 

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com

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