Using csh & tcsh describes from the beginning how to use csh--the standard shell on most UNIX systems--interactively. More importantly, it shows the reader how to get work done faster with less typing.

Leaders of Open Source come together to discuss the new vision of the software industry they have created, through essays that explain how the movement works, why it succeeds, and where it is going. Apowerful vision from the movement's spiritual leaders, this book reveals the mysteries of howopen development builds better software, and how busin...

No book on software project management has been so influential and so timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. Now 20 years after the publication of his book, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (best known as the father of the IBM System 360 ) revisits his original ideas and develops new thoughts and advice both for readers familiar with his work and for reade...

This major revision of the best-selling and single most comprehensive guide to UNIX system administration is ideal as both an introductory tutorial for those new to system administration and a day-to-day reference for power administrators. Practical and hands-on in approach, it covers every aspect of system administration - from basic topics to ...

Authors Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt have written a comprehensive reference for faculty to use to hone their skills as online instructors and for students to use to become more effective online learners. Filled with numerous examples from actual online courses and insights from teachers and students, Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom covers ...

C++, Lisp, Peri, Modula-2, Simula, FORTRAN, Algol, and Basic. As well, he has done time as a system administrator for Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, and Windows NT systems. For the past four years, he has used Linux to teach the UNIX System Administration, course at Boston University's Computer Career Programs. He works full-time developing device drive...

A must for any Web site developer, this book provides all the reference and instruction needed for creating great Web sites with the newest version of FrontPage. 150 illustrations.

This comprehensive and timely edition reflects industry advancements, while retaining the easy-to-understand approach of the first edition. It covers both the functional and structural approaches to software testing, describing each approach in practical terms, and illustrating them with continuing examples.

This is the first book focused on the three key Open Source development tools written by the maintainers of the tools. The authors teach developers how to boost their productivity and the portability of their applications using GNU autoconf, GNU automake, and GNU libtool. This is a unique book that will appeal to application developers working a...

76899-4 Object-oriented programming and powerful features of C++ enable this carefully crafted text to build data structures from basic ideas into complete, fully-developed programs and interesting applications. In the process, the text explores problem solving and programming principles, data abstraction, recursion, and the comparative analysi...

John Lakos--who works with the company (Mentor Graphics) that has written more large-scale programs in C++ than anyone else--shows how to decompose a large program into a number of smaller, more easily manageable components. A single 12,000-line code example runs throughout the book which shows the reader how to build a complex project which the...

Project managers, technical leads, and Windows programmers throughout the industry share an important concern--how to get their development schedules under control. Rapid Development addresses that concern head-on with philosophy, techniques, and tools that help shrink and control development schedules and keep projects moving. The style is frie...

Web-maven Elizabeth Castro, who has planned Peachpit books on HTML, Perl and CGI, and Netscape, now tackles XML--an indispensable tool for creating personalized, updated content for each visitor on your site. Whether you build Web pages for a living or you're taking on a new hobby, XML for the Wold Wide Web contains everything you need to create...

This highly entertaining. colorful, and non-technical neutral discussion of the perils of the Internet for kids, families, and teachers should be on the reading list of every parent whose child has access to a computer (Congressman Tom Tancredo).

Complete guide to developing Linux games, written by the Linux gaming experts. Discusses important multimedia toolkits (including a very thorough discussion of the Simple DirectMedia Layer) and teaches the basics of Linux game programming. Readers learn about the state of the Linux gaming world, and how to write and distribute Linux games to the...

Originally a military and scientific computational tool of a small number of government, scientific, and corporate elites in the late 1940s, the computer has evolved significantly in less than seventy years to become a revolutionary technology and the basis for one the largest industries in America. The Internet, email and personal computer have...

Most software developers today are working in a Windows environment and using Visual Basic as the development language. A must for all Visual Basic programmers, this guide describes all the new features of this language including the control development framework, the built-in compiler, and the reworked source code editor. 200 pp. Pub: 9/97.

An ideal tutorial and reference for both novice and experienced UNIX users, this new edition brings Sobell's bestseller up-to-date in several key areas, including graphical user interfaces and networking with electronic mail.

Aspiring game developers need to know how to develop a game that will really get published. They need step-by-step instructions on how to conceptualize, design, and develop a saleable game, and that's what they'll find here. Written by the developer of Dead Reckoning and Sorcerer, this book teaches developers how to approach game design from the...