Your UNIX: The Ultimate Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Sumitabha Das
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 584693
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 864
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0072520426
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.432
EAN: 9780072520422
Publication Date: January 7, 2005
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Your UNIX: The Ultimate Guide is both an outstanding pedagogical tool and an exhaustive reference. It is the ideal text for any Unix course. It can also be used for any introductory programming course that includes Unix and for advanced courses such as those on Operating Systems and System Administration. Excellent pedagogy is implemented throughout. Real-world examples make it easier for students to grasp concepts while chapters on advanced material take more experienced students beyond the basics. Over nine hundred exercises and self-test questions allow students to test and reinforce their understanding of material at different levels. This book also features coverage of Linux, where Linux differs from UNIX. .
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 This Book Saved My Ass July 10, 2005
Sumo Wrestler (Sydney, Australia)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
(Opps, can I use that word here ?). This is the only book you need for a beginner's to itermediate course. I have a degree in Mathematics plus C and VB programming background plus tones of work experience, but was devestated with "Distributed Computing" (UNIX) tutors, who simply forgot to do a "Train the Trainer" course before accepting the job offer! Anyway, this excellant book has the following strengh: (1) Covering almost all topics even the more obsure unix usage like XARG stuff (2) Appropriate lay-out for easy study & referene (3) concise but just enough details of explanation with PRECISION, so it takes guess work out of your study. I have been buying books from Amazon for years, but this is the first review I wrote, 'cause I owe it to the author !! Hay sumitabha, are you gonna write any other books on C++, c#.net, VB.net, or Java ?
My favorite UNIX book! January 20, 2007
L. Becraft (Maryland, USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is very easy to read and understand. Every section clearly explains the topic and offers plenty of fully explained examples. I find this book an excellent reference for the basics of using the command line, shell scripting, sed and awk. Unlike most textbooks, this will not bore you with heaps of theory--you can use it as a tutorial and to try out the examples as you read. I use linux daily and find almost everything in the book applicable.
Excellent for Teaching at the Undergraduate Level November 3, 2005
College Professor (Tougaloo, MS)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a former Bell Labs Engineer, I have tasted most of the flavors of Unix. As a computer science professor for 18 years, this is the best book that I have used. The Self-test and exercises gives the user a structured approach to learning Unix, which doesn't always happen in the Unix world. The examples in the text are easy to interpret and the author provides several variations of the commands. The book has an extra bonus with the perl, system administration and TCP/IP sections.
Must Have! October 15, 2007
Ordinary Customer (Joplin , MO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a great reference book, it explains clearly how to do basic things in unix without confusing the hell out of you. one of the only books i'm keeping after the course was over.
WOW! That's a book! July 21, 2005
Bob (Woodbrige, NJ)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I like easy to read books and I also had assumed that learning UNIX is not necessarily has to be a struggle. This book stood up to my expectations almost perfectly: it is very well written and clearly expressed work. It does not overwhelm with technical details and does not press too much. I also followed an advise in someone review and purchased "UNIX Essentials" DVD that is complete unix course recorded. These two nicely complement one another. You watch it and you read it. If you didn't catch it from the first try you watch it again and read it again. In two months I found myself confident to that extend that gave advises to our system administrator and he accepted them because there were subjects that he wasn't completely sure. What I can say, in three month I passed my first interview and got a job! Sure it is a way to start there much of more advanced reading that will take over you with a time however these two provide you with the BASIS!
I can't overstate how much I have learned from them. Don't be naive, though. You will have to learn and memorize many things. The fact of owning neither book nor DVD will not make you knowledgeable, but if you will work it trough, there is a chance you will surprise many people around!
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