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cs2223, D97/98 Notes

Information about the UNIX environment

UNIX: a short listing of some UNIX commands
Emacs: a summary of important commands for the emacs text editor
GDB: a summary of important commands for the gdb debugger
Make: a summary of the UNIX make utility
Programming with GNU Software, ISBN 1-56592-112-7 by M Loukides and A Oram. This is a good summary manual on many of the GNU software components including gdb, make, and Emacs.
Learning the UNIX Operating System, ISBN 1-56592-060-0, by G Todino, J Strang and J Peek. This is a good first book about UNIX
Learning GNU Emacs, ISBN 1-56592-152-6, by D Cameron and B. Rosenblatt and E Raymond. This is a comprehensive text book designed for beginners.
Managing Projects with make, ISBN 0-937175-90-0, by A Oram and S Talbot. This is a small book about how to use the make facility in UNIX.
GNU Emacs Manual, ISBN 1-882114-06-X by RM Stallman. The official manual for Emacs, published by the Free Software Foundation.
GNU Make, ISBN 1-882114-79-5 by RM Stallman and R McGrath. The official manual for make, published by the Free Software Foundation.
Debugging with GDB, ISBN 1-882114-09-4 by RM Stallman and C Support. The official manual for GDB, published by the Free Software Foundation.

Information about programming in C and C++

Precedence and Associativity: a chart of C and C++ operators
ASCII Character Set: decimal equivalents of ASCII characters
Keywords: a listing of the keywords in the C and C++ languages
cs1005 and cs1005w web sites. They contain many worked examples of C programs, including pointers, structs, functions, and data structures.
cs2005 web site. It contains worked examples of C++ programs and information about some algorithms and data structures.
Differences between C and C++. Some of the differences are summarized here.
Standard C and C++ Libraries: This is a complete on-line reference to the libraries. Be sure to read and observe the license restrictions.
The C Programming Language by BW Kernighan and DM Ritchie, ISBN 0-13-110362-8. One of the authors was the originator of the C language and this book is considered by many to be the most authoritative description of the language and its use.
The C++ Programming Language by B Stroustrup, ISBN 0-201-88954-4. The authors was the originator of the C++ language and this book is considered by many to be the most authoritative description of the language and its use.
Practical C Programming, ISBN 1-56592-306-5, and Practical C++ Programming, ISBN 1-56592-139-9 by S. Oualline. These books explain important practical aspects of programming in C and C++ and are easy to understand.
The Standard C Library, ISBN 0-13-131509-9, and The Standard C++ Library, ISBN 0-13-117003-1, by PJ Plauger. Thise book contain detailed information about the operation and limitations of the standard C library functions. They also have library function source code.

Information about algorithms

Recurrence Relations. This is a set of notes with worked examples.