Mastering Linux [Paperback]

Paul S. Wang (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1439806861 | ISBN-13: 978-1439806869 | Publication Date: September 22, 2010 | Edition: 1

Encouraging hands-on practice, Mastering Linux provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to Linux concepts, usage, and programming. Through a set of carefully selected topics and practical examples, the book imparts a sound understanding of operating system concepts and shows how to use Linux effectively.

Ready-to-Use Examples Offer Immediate Access to Practical Applications
After a primer on the fundamentals, the text covers user interfaces, commands and filters, Bash Shell scripting, the file system, networking and Internet use, and kernel system calls. It presents many examples and complete programs ready to run on your Linux system. Each chapter includes a summary and exercises of varying degrees of difficulty.

Web Resource
The companion website at http://ml.sofpower.com/ offers a host of ancillary materials. Along with links to numerous resources, it includes appendices on SSH and SFTP, VIM, text editing with Vi, and the emacs editor. The site also provides a complete example code package for download.

Master the Linux Operating System Toolbox
This book enables you to leverage the capabilities and power of the Linux system more effectively. Going beyond this, it can help you write programs at the shell and C levels—encouraging you to build new custom tools for applications and R&D.

Editorial Reviews

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This outstanding book … gives the reader robust concepts and implementable knowledge of this environment. Graphical user interface (GUI)-based users and developers do not get short shrift, despite the command-line interface’s (CLI) full-power treatment. … Every programmer should read the introduction’s Unix/Linux philosophy section. … This authoritative and exceptionally well-constructed book has my highest recommendation. It will repay careful and recursive study.
—Computing Reviews, August 2011

Designed as a primer for the popular Linux family of operating systems, this volume walks the reader quickly but clearly through basic operations and on into more advanced core concepts necessary for a deeper understanding of this open source software environment. Appropriate as a textbook for programmers or intermediate computer science students with a solid working knowledge of computer operating systems, the work provides some step-by-step instructions but focuses more on delivering conceptual understanding of the meaning and usage of commands and procedures for common Linux computing tasks. Each chapter in this volume provides illustrations, code examples, a concept summary and a collection of study exercises. Access to a companion website containing appendices and sample programs is included.
—SciTech Book News, February 2011

About the Author

Paul S. Wang is a professor of computer science and a director of research in the Institute for Computational Mathematics at Kent State University. In 2001, he received the Ohio Governor’s Award for University Faculty Entrepreneurship. A leading expert in symbolic and algebraic computation (SAC), Dr. Wang has conducted over forty research projects funded by government and industry. His main research interests include polynomial algorithms, parallel and distributed SAC, Internet-accessible mathematical computation, and enabling technologies for web-based mathematics education. He earned his Ph.D. from MIT.

Product Details

• Paperback: 439 pages
• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 1 edition (September 22, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439806861
• ISBN-13: 978-1439806869
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #551,124 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The photo is not recent. But I don't look much different than that. Seriously,
I am switching over to the proper third-person style for my brief bio :-))

Paul is the author of this and several other computer science books. He is professor of Computer Science and a Director of Research at the Institute for Computational Mathematics (ICM/Kent), at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA.

A Ph.D. and faculty member from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Paul Wang became a Computer Science professor (Kent State University) in 1981. Paul is a leading expert in Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (SAC) and in Web-based Mathematics Education (WME).

He has received over forty research fundings from government and industry, published nine textbooks and many software tools. He received the Ohio Governor's Award for University Faculty Entrepreneurship (2001).

Paul has supervised 12 Ph.D. and over 26 Master-degree students. His main research interests include polynomial algorithms, parallel and distributed SAC, Internet accessible mathematical computation, and enabling technologies for Web-based mathematics education, Web tools for mathematics, New and Journalism on the Web.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars You are going to love "Mastering Linux"!, December 17, 2011

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Iyad Ajwa (Ashland, Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mastering Linux (Kindle Edition)

I am a professor of Computer Science and I have been a UNIX user for a very long time. I got Wang's book, Mastering Linux, several months ago. Whether you are an experienced programmer, casual Linux user, or a beginner, you will find "Mastering Linux" user friendly yet comprehensive. Beginners will find chapters 1 through 4 very useful especially the Linux Primer chapter and the chapter on the interactive usage of the shell. These chapters provide a solid start and get users into the subject very quickly. Lunix users will benefit from the variety of useful applications, commands, and filters provided and discussed in details in the book. Programmers would love the coverage of a wide range of applications from writing shell scripts to Internet programming. Although the book covers many topics in depth, it is still written in an easy way to follow making it very useful. I strongly recommend this book.

4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful intro to Linux, December 12, 2011

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This review is from: Mastering Linux (Paperback)

I am a faculty member at RIT and teach courses in system administration. I am always on the lookout for texts that go beyond the usual Linux bible type topics to discuss in a very concise fashion the many sides of Linux and its use. I greatly enjoy Prof. Wang's style of writing and the fact that this text goes beyond the regular topics to give students an introduction to Linux as both an operating system and a development platform. The thing that I particularly enjoy is that rather than try to cover every detail of every topic he covers (an impossible task given the changing nature of the technology) this text introduces students to many topics, gets them up and running and then lets them figure things out on their own. As an example of this his chapter on writing shell scripts does not pretend to be the last word on shell scripts (that is for much thicker tomes) but this chapter gives students enough to get started writing shell scripts and points them in the direction of uses for shell scripts and then moves on.

For me, this is the right approach and I intend to use this text in several classes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mastering Linux is GREAT for a Windows person!, November 27, 2010

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This review is from: Mastering Linux (Paperback)

I'm a Windows person and this book helped me much more than any other in learning Linux! Definitely worth the money.