Useful bits of the web

If you find a web page that you think would be useful to other students in the class, send me mail and I'll add a link here.

Sumitabha Das, Your Unix The Ultimate Guide, McGraw Hill, 2000
This book focuses on how to use Unix rather than on how to program it. It goes into much more detail than the course text and at roughly 900 pages you would hope that it would. Generally, it seems quite readable and sensible.
Deborah S. Ray and Eric J. Ray, UNIX: Visual QuickStart Guide Peachpit Press, 1998, ISBN 0-201-35395-4
I quite like the Visual QuickStart Guides from Peachpit Press. They feature step-by-step instructions for how to do many things. This book is aimed at the beginning Unix user. The authors do a good job of explaining the reasons behind the steps that they give you.
Richard Stevens, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-56317-7
Stevens books are fantastic references for programming in Unix. They geared more at someone already familiar with Unix, but are very readable.
Richard Stevens, UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, Second Edition: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI, Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN 0-13-490012-X.
If you are ever going to buy a book on network programming, this is the one to buy.
Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming. Read chapters of this book in progress on the web. Learn more about the Unix philosphy and Unix tools.