Preface: The Project

Goals for Programming Course

Introduction to Linux Programming

How must be a programming Book?

Chapter P1. So you want to program?

• What is a program?
• Interpreted vs Compiled
• A first example in C language
• The "main" procedure
• The arguments argc and argv
• The atoi
• Data declaration
• The C  program checker: lint
• The gcc: the GNU C Compiler
• Float and double
• The make command
• The touch command
• The environ
• A first example in C++ language
• The ++ operator
• How to Design of a Program with a Flow Chart
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• C Data types
• Formatting data
• Vectors and Pointers
• Structures, union and typedef
• Conversion between types
• C Operators
• C Functions
• How to build a static library
• How to build a shared library
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• The C Compiler
• The RedHat 2.96 'gaffe' compiler
• The latest GNU gcc 3.1
• The C Preprocessor
• The C Library: "libc.a"
• The stdio functions familiy
• The type FILE.
• The stat type: sys/stat.h
• The pwd functions
• The string functions
• The math functions
• The stdlib functions
• The signals
• The time function
• C Limits
• Some Utilities for Developers
• Some Examples
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• Memory management
• The "malloc" and "calloc"
• The memcpy
• Programming techniques
• Algorithms for Sorting
• Selection
• Insertion
• Bubble
• ShellSort
• QuickSort
• Algorithms for Searching
• Sequential Search
• List Search and
• Binary Search
• Queues
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• What is a debugger ?
• The "gdb" debugger
• The graphical interface for gdb: "xxgdb"
• The Data Display Debugger: "ddd".
• A debugging session
• Tracing the execution of a program
• How to set up breakpoints.
• How to print data in the debugger.
• Some hints to debug graphical programs
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• Introduction
• The C++ Implementation
• A new mode to include files
• New operators for Standard I/O
• What is a class?
• Constructors and Destructors
• File I/O
• Inheritance or Derived Classes
• The C++ Standard Library
• C++ Keywords
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• The make program
• Some Basic Makefiles
• The implicit Makefile
• A simple and effective Makefile
• A recursive Makefile
• The X11 Makefile
• The Qt Makefile
• A short "make" Command Reference
• The "automake" and "autoconf" tools
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• Processes under Linux
• How to use a "popen" function
• Using signals
• Launching programs from programs
• Using getpid()
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• An Introduction to Network Programming
• Network API
• IPC Programming
• What is a socket ?
• The message queue
• Semaphores
• What is Shared Memory?
• Locking files
• CORBA programming
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• FORTRAN ... an ethernal scientfic programming language
• Fortran Generations
• Fortran 90 features
• Discovering FORTRAN
• The READ and WRITE instructions
• Data Declaration
• Loops
• FORMAT
• Compiling FORTRAN with libs
• Some Examples
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• What is Python ?
• My first program in Python
• Numbers
• Strings
• Lists
• Dictionaries
• Classes
• File I/O with Python
• The Standard Python Library
• Compiling Python
• Writing X applications in Python: Tkinter
• ZOPE
• Conclusions
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• Introduction
• RPM like a Package DataBase
• RPM Commands
• Upgrading the RPM database from RPM 3.X to 4.X
• Upgrading from RPM 4.0.2 to 4.0.3
• Upgrading from RPM 4.0.91 to 4.0.96
• Built a RPM package from scratch
• Creating Dependencies between packages
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Appendix PC: Magic CVS

Appendix PL: Learning a Programming Language syntax in one day

Appendix PP: Answers to all exercises

Bibliography.