Explains how to write and compile C programs for the Linux operating system. The author introduces operators for manipulating C expressions, functions and structured programming, loop statements, numeric arrays, pointers, strings, memory management, and disk files. An appendix presents five programs to type in and run. The CD-ROM contains GNU gcc/gpp, GNU make, and ddd. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Erik de Castro Lopo is a professional Research and Develpoment engineer who lives and works in Sydney Australia. He used UNIX extensively while at University and discovered Linux in 1995. He is a regular visitor to the Linux Usenet newsgroups, has contributed bug fixes to many open source projects and has also released some of his own code under the GNU General Public License.