Programming Basics

The Basics Resources Articles

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The Basics

• Logging In and Using Basic SunOS Commands
• Working With Files and Directories
• Customizing Your Working Environment
• Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide
• Roadmap to Sun Developer Documentation

Resources

Some basic resources available for Solaris developers are:

• New2Solaris Forum: Still lost in the Solaris world? Here's the place to find your footing and help others along. At the New2Solaris forum, we don't believe there's such a thing as a dumb question, so dive in and start a new discussion or join an ongoing one. Check out other Solaris forums for more technical discussions.
• Solaris 10 Learning Centers: With easy access to multimedia presentations and demos, learn more about the various technologies Solaris 10 has to offer. Learning Centers are available for Security, Virtualization, Solaris Containers, ZFS, Business Community, and System and Application Management.
• Sun Tech Days: These globally delivered, two-day developer conferences provide vision, direction and "how-to" hands-on training for developers. Learn more about upcoming Sun Tech Days in your area.
• Solaris 10 Software Developer Collection
• Solaris 10 User Collection
• Sun Studio Documentation

Articles

• Why You Will Like Sun Studio Software (Help for students programming with C on UNIX)
• Using Man Pages in the Solaris OS
• Shell Programming Techniques (Tried and true techniques to get you started quickly)
• Using the C/C++ Garbage Collection Library, libgc
• Living with XML (Introduction to XML)
• Using DTrace to Profile and Debug A C++ Program
• More Technical Articles

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