Byron Watkins wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to ween myself from Windows. A couple of months ago
I
installed Debian on my new amd64 box and I am generally quite impressed
by the amalgam. There are a few items that I have been unable to
address satisfactorily, however.
First, I am a programmer in one of my hobby lives. I love C and
C++
and I have installed the gcc and g++ packages on my new box. I have not
yet found a good integrated developer environment, however. About the
only thing good about Windows, in my opinion, is their Visual C++.
For Gnome;
http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/downloads
For KDE;
http://trolltech.com/products/qt
I am assuming that you are on Debian so the Gnome or KDE development
packages are available to you and quite feature full.
I believe that the Eclipse suite;
http://www.eclipse.org/
with 'language IDE's' allows you to develop in C and C++ as well as
Java. In fact if you can get Java, the tools, and the Eclipse suite
installed and setup properly from either distribution specific packages
or generic binaries ( Sun tar.gz files), you'll learn a lot about Linux
along the way.
Second, I am an electrical engineer, so I would like to get
closer to
the hardware. In order to do so, it would be nice to find a tutorial
explaining the standard ways Linux implements plug and play, hardware
access permissions, and communication between hardware and applications.
Third, I would like to find a good book to teach me how to
accept and
to process mouse, keyboard, graphics tablet, etc. input and how to
generate and to operate the graphical windows used in Debian. I
understand that the Gnome and/or KDE interfaces are available and it
would be nice to know what the differences, similarities, and
compatibility issues are from the programmer's perspective. I think I
am using Gnome, so my first priority is programming for Gnome, but if I
can program for both, even better.
Any recommended literature and relevant references and/or urls
are
quite welcome and will be appreciated.
Byron Watkins
Books;
http://www.oreilly.com/
Debian provides copious amounts of documentation in .txt, .info, .html,
.pdf, .ps forms among others. Scan /usr/share/doc or do something like
$>man gcc
$>man info
$>info flex
A lot of docs are available as .html and thus viewable by your browser.
Hope this gets you started.
Michael
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