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sb302 | May 11, 2009 01:04 AM | in Technology & Internet | via Twitter | about Unix

What Is Unix Programming? Where Could I Learn How To Use It?

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BEST ANSWER decided by votes | srgothard | May 25, 2009 08:36 PM | view on twitter

Unix is an operating system like Microsoft Windows is. Solaris Unix, Mac OS X, and Red Hat Linux are all versions of Unix. When Unix was first created, Kernighan and Ritchie made a language to be used with it: C. Often when people speak of Unix programming, they are referring to writing C (or C++) programs for the Unix operating system. I use the gcc/g++ compiler. A good Unix programmer also knows how to write C code that interacts with the Unix environment, especially at the low level: interrupts, signals, IO, processes, threads, and distributed computation over a network.

Most good Unix programmers are also comfortable with shell scripting: writing scripts for the shell, which is a process that does command-line interpretation. Some shells include the C Shell (csh), the popular Bourne Again Shell (bash), the TC shell (tcsh), etc. Shell scripting for each is slightly different but allows about the same things: loops, variables, and simple interaction with Unix commands and files.

I recommend you get a few good textbooks if you want to be a good C++ programmer: