Additional Resources for CSE 271

A nice tongue-in-cheek discussion of learning to use UNIX.
Very basic set of UNIX commands and ideas to get you started quickly.
Frequently asked questions about C programming.
The Top 10 Ways to get screwed by the "C" programming language
Dennis Ritchie's 1993 paper on The Development of the C Language
A good discussion of pointers can be found in Simple Pointers (Chapter 13 of Practical C Programming, 3rd ed).
A one page GNU Emacs Reference Card.
A wonderful computer languages timeline, and a similarly detailed one for unix timeline and ancestry.
A live CD that can run X-windows, cygwin, bash, and many utilities common on UNIX.
The Lehigh student chapter of the ACM has regular educational meetings and hangs out on IRC channel #acm on acm.cse.lehigh.edu. Many of them are C and UNIX experts.
A one page GDB Reference Card.
Sams Teach Yourself Shell Programming in 24 Hours
The GNU Bash Reference Manual
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
More commentary on how to comment code.
To learn more about regular expressions, see Using Regular Expressions by Stephen Ramsay from the Univ. of Virginia, the Regular Expressions tutorial on Linux-Learn.org, and for those interested in web applications, Regular Expressions from Zytrax.com.

Last revised: 3 August 2005, Brian D. Davison.