For the newbies (book question)

[Mark Komarinski]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:09:53AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:00:01AM -0500, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> > Derek, did I miss any of the essential books :)
> 
> It depends...  :)
> 
> If you want a nuts and bolts understanding of TCP/IP networking, then
> you definitely want W. Richard Stevens's TCP/IP Illustrated series.
> And if you want to understand programming in a Unix environment, then
> you want his Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment.

TCP/IP illustrated vol 1 should be handed out to system/network
administrators when they walk in the door.

Allow me to also add:

UNIX Shell Programming (Kochan and Wood, Hayden Books)
  10ish years old, but still worthwhile if you're writing sh or csh
  covers the shells and some of the more commonly-used tools
  in shell scripting.  But, no gnu versions or coverage of bash/tcsh.

Programming Perl (Wall, Christiansen, & Schwartz, O'Reilly)
  Excellent combination of tutorial and reference.  I don't code
  in perl as much as I used to, but when I do, this book gets cracked
  open.

If you're considering the following, don't:

Building Linux Clusters (David HM Spector, O'Reilly)
  One of the first books on the subject, and it shows.
  Doesn't go into enough detail, glosses over a lot of concepts.

-Mark
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