For quite a while I've been looking at picking up programming again, purely as a hobby. I've been messing around (sometimes succesfully, sometimes not) with source code for things like kernel modules, applications, tools, etc for a couple of years and I want to be able to actually contribute to some projects and not only as debugger.
Surely I could start doing that now, but most of my patches/changes are far to much of a hack job to publish
So can anyone of you guru's point me to some good literature? Ideally I want 2 books:
I do have some minimal Java, JavaScript and Pascal (yeah, dos age) experience, but the emphasis is on minimal. I'd ideally like to know more about the core language, GUI programming is not as important (yet). I ask here, because it seems a lot of books over here seem to be a mix between a C++ guide and a Visual Studio manual.
Surely I could start doing that now, but most of my patches/changes are far to much of a hack job to publish
So can anyone of you guru's point me to some good literature? Ideally I want 2 books:
- one up to date, modern, linux point of view getting started book
- one complete reference, for the 'why did they do it that way' situations
I do have some minimal Java, JavaScript and Pascal (yeah, dos age) experience, but the emphasis is on minimal. I'd ideally like to know more about the core language, GUI programming is not as important (yet). I ask here, because it seems a lot of books over here seem to be a mix between a C++ guide and a Visual Studio manual.
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