Advanced Books
By a happy coincidence, this book is printed and distributed by O’Reilly & Associates, the industry’s leading source of books for programmers. And a big chunk of O’Reilly’s catalog is dedicated to teaching Unix, especially intermediate and advanced Unix. If this book—particularly Chapter 7, Chapter 15, and Chapter 16 —have given you the programming bug or the Unix bug, here are some titles that apply:
Writing Software for Mac OS X
Learning Cocoa by Apple Computer, Inc. Eases you into the experience of writing Cocoa programs.
Learning Carbon by Apple Computer, Inc. Gives you a head start in writing Carbon programs.
AppleScript in a Nutshell by Bruce W. Perry. The first modern reference to AppleScript, including its use in Mac OS X.
Mac OS X for Unix Geeks by Brian Jepson & Ernest Rothman. Just what it says.
Unix Essentials
Learning the Unix Operating System, 5th Edition, by Jerry Peek. A good primer for Mac users who want to know a little more about Unix.
Learning GNU Emacs, 2nd Edition, by Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, & Eric Raymond. A comprehensive guide to the GNU Emacs editor, one of the most widely used and powerful Unix text editors.
Learning the vi Editor, 6th Edition, by Linda Lamb & Arnold Robbins. A complete guide to editing with vi, the text editor available on nearly every Unix system.
Unix in a Nutshell: System V Edition, 3rd Edition, by Arnold Robbins. A complete Unix reference, containing all commands and options, with descriptions and examples that ...
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