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Date:      Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:32:42 +0200
From:      Frank Heitmann <fh31415@gmx.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Books (OT)
Message-ID:  <20020926163242.A382@host1.myhost.mydomain>

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Hi.

I have used FreeBSD for about 6-7 weeks now (great system; I have
to admit that I like UNIX much more than Windows) and now that I
got a little better with the system in general I wanted to start
to program for it, so that I will hopefully be able to help.

But as I read through some code I noticed that my C/C++ needs some
refreshment and improvement (especially OOP) first. (I haven't really
programmed for a year or so, because I first started to study Physics,
before I realized that Computer Science (or "Informatik" here in
Germany) is what interests me much more. Before that I have programmed
a lot for Windows.)

The books I have looked at are:
C How To Program
C++ How To Program (both from Prentice Hall/Deitel)
and:
C Programming Language (K&R)
C++ Programming Language (Stroustrup)

The two from Deitel look very good to me (I like the summary and
exercises at the end of each chapter and I like the whole layout).
The last two also seemed to be very good, but I believe they are
more useful as a reference than for learning?!

Maybe someone has them on his/her bookshelf and can give a comment?

Oh, and sorry for being off-topic, but these mailinglists have
rapidily become my only connection to the outside world :)

P.S. I have just seen in the handbook that there is a book "The
Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Unix Operating System".
Is it useful in connection with the "Developers Handbook" to
understand kernel internals?
(Hey, I am at least not absolutly off-topic now :)

Cheers,
Frank

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