In this book, students will learn how to

• Develop programs to access files and the Linux environment
• Use the GNU compiler, debugger and other development tools
• Program data storage aapplications for MySQL and DBM database systems
• Write programs that take advantage of signals, processes and threads
• Build graphical user interfaces using both the GTK (for GNOME) and Qt (for KDE) libraries
• Write device drivers that can be loaded into the Linux kernel
• Access the network using TCP/IP sockets
• Write scripts that use grep, regular expressions and other Linux facilities

Who is this book for?

This book is for students with some C or C++ experience, who want to take advantage of the Linux development environment.