[CLUE-Talk] Intro to Unix book.

[Timothy C. Klein]

I have a really good book for intro to Unix called Thinking in Unix, or
something like that.  I am at work now, so can't look at it to see
exactly waht it is called. It is very good at indroducing Unix concepts,
and giving the essentials to get started on a Unix system.  It tells not
only the how, but the why.  This can be especially good for folks coming
from the Windows world, as it justifies and explains the Unix
philosophy.  It has been my experience that a lot of folks assume that
different is worse.  This book can help show that it is otherwise.

I can tell you exactly what it is called and who wrote it when I get
home.

Tim

* Dave Anselmi (anselmi at americanisp.net) wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good book to introduce people to Unix?  I have
> several friends and family who would like to learn, but aren't technical
> (some can handle a command line, some are just point and click).
> 
> Books that have been valuable to me are "The UNIX Programming
> Environment" by Kernighan and Pike, "Essential System Administration"
> from O'Reilly, and "UNIX System Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth,
> et. al.
> 
> The K & P book is really about shell programming but covers enough about
> the system to get by.  But it's a programmer's book, and some beginners
> just don't get that.
> 
> The Nemeth book is too advanced for beginners.  I found the O'Reilly
> admin book to be a great intro to what was going on, but I haven't tried
> it on any beginners.  For them I think it's a little long, and although
> the material is very interesting and pertinent (to me), I suspect they
> will be wondering "so how does this get my email read?"
> 
> Generally, I despise "for dummies" books, and the "record time" or "in
> 21 days" books that turn out to be full of screen shots of pointing and
> clicking (isn't the gui supposed to make it obvious where to point and
> click?  The thing you need out of the books that they lack is details of
> how all the dialog box fields affect what actually happens.)
> 
> But I don't know.  I'm an engineer, so simple books annoy me.  But I
> want to teach non-engineers, so I ask your advice.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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