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Adventures in Linux Programmingby Rildo Pragana |
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IntroductionThese are just a few incursions in software development I have done with Linux. I like Tcl/tk as a wrapper language, mainly because of it's simplicity. I have not much time to spend learning several hundreds API entries, and I prefer C to C++. I think OO-design is a good thing, but OO-programming not. It's assumptions of code reuse are hard to be met, because each one has a (distinct) way to think in a problem or algorithm. Well, let us leave those religious questions to a later time and let's go to... |
My friend David Suarez de Lis has been kind enough to maintain a web page on this subject. You may find in his Official Slidedraw Homepage many nice things about this program. Anyway, you may pick here my most recent snapshot.
A client/server teaching tool with a blackboard, irc-like chat, and a remote-execution tcl/tk facility. Here is the tarball. You need tcl-dp and tcl/tk8.0 or better.
This is a tiny script in tcl for ppp configuration
and connection. Just make it executable (chmod +x) and don't forget to fill all
fields, or it will not work.
You can have some clues by looking at the source ( use the source, Luke :)
This is my old (historic) Cobol compiler, originally developed under MsDos®, but now generating also Linux assembly code. It's here, but in a separate page.
I want to get easy creating commercial applications under Linux. I have found PostgreSQL and tcl/tk nice complementar tools for the job. This is my attempt of turning this into reality. Look at the SQLforms page.
This is another web page by your truly, to collect all teaching notes, books and other documents. I am deeply indebted with the people of UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), where I remember taking classes for my masters course, for hosting this. The Xoom page will continue to exist, mainly for holding programs, in-progress documents and other things. Please, visit it!
Before reading this course, please notice this is unfinished, in portuguese, and may be not very advanced for you. Translators are welcome for changing this to english. I have plenty of work to do and can't do it just now, sorry. You can get everything (including slides for presentation) at my other home page Adventures in Linux Teaching.
We have been spreading Linux in Pernambuco with Recife Linux Installfest, similar to other events around the world. See the original annoucement here.
This is a dynamic course, using tclets instead of many pictures to make it interactive. I stress more on doing it yourself than by making it a complete coverage of the available options. This course is in portuguese and I welcome you to translate it to other languages if you like. When it's finished I will make available the slides and other course material. Start here.
If you want to do something with hardware, specially microcontrollers, I would
recommand you Microchip's PIC series. They are small things but very
powerfull. I have submitted some projects of mine to Picpoint .
I am discussing here some points that may be of interest to beginners in
Tcl/tk. Please check this guide .
If you have some questions to be answered, send to my e-mail address, and I'll answer it here
when time allows.
If you are unsecure of how to do some simple commands (well, not so simple
sometimes), you can look on how do I do .
If you write in portuguese (BTW, I'm brazilian), perhaps you find useful my
brazil.tar.gz file. Put it in your
/usr/lib/kbd/keytables/ directory and change your rc.local to load it
with loadkeys. To key in accented characteres, you may type the accent
with AltGr and then the vowel, or use directly AltGR +
{a,s,d,f,e,r,u,i,o,p,l, and c} to see the shortcuts I've done. (I only use
this last, faster way)
When I made the migration from Msdos to Linux, I used to work with wordstar-like text editors, so I found a very natural replacement with joe. Later, I discovered VIM (Vi IMproved), a really terrific text editor for all our programming tasks. I plan to write some notes about it later, but don't hold your breath! Find by yourself why I have dismissed Amaya, as my html editor.
I'm graduated physicist, but since 1974 I've been working with computers and
digital electronics. I decided to change to Linux the first time I hear about
it. I used to program in Msdos/Windows before and have spent very much time
disassembling msdos code to figure how to program with it. Never more...
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