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Awk Prototyping - Prototyping commands using awk and sed

Awk Tutorial - Excellent 12-page introduction to the awk text-processing script language, by Emmett Dulaney

Bash Scripting - Advanced Bash Scripting Guide - despite its name, assumes merely that you have some basic aptitude for coding

Books - Recommended books for aspiring Linux coders and technical users

C++ Socket Programming - Access to TCP/IP sockets from C++ coding using libace

COBOL - COBOL resources for Linux

Csh Why Not - Top Ten Reasons Not to Use the C Shell

CVS Lecture - Lecture notes for a lecture about CVS, by Rick Moen

CVS on NFS - Are there any ways to safely put CVSROOT on an NFS volume?

Debuggers - Source code debuggers for Linux

FORTRAN on Linux - How good is the FORTRAN support on Linux?

How to Be a Programmer - Robert L. Read's concise rundown on the design, conceptual, and organisational aspects of being a coder

IDEs - Integrated Development Environments, RAD tools, GUI builders

Java - Open-source Java tools on Linux

Memory Debuggers - Memory leak checkers/tracers, malloc debuggers, memory profilers, and memory debuggers

Parable of the Languages - Shelley Powers's 'Parable of the Languages' humour piece

Perl CGI - The Idiot's Guide to Solving Perl CGI Problems, by Tom Christiansen

Python to Perl Conversions - Tom Christiansen's table of syntax equivalencies between Python and Perl

Perl Tutorials - How to learn Perl from on-line materials

Python Tutorials - How to learn Python from on-line materials

RPM Rebuilding - Rebuilding software from source RPM packages

Shared Libraries - Ulrich Drepper's guide to writing shared libraries for Linux

sed and awk - Tutorial materials for sed and awk

VCS - Version-control systems on Linux

VisualBASIC - Projects to support VisualBASIC and similar on Linux Home | Suggest new link

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