This article is excerpted from Chapter 7 of my book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, published by Prentice Hall (ISBN: 0-13-142964-7). Chapters 1 through 6 cover the standard APIs for ...

Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...

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You could say reactive programming is like functional programming with superpowers. Let's take a look at this dynamic programming style. Reactive programming is an important facet of modern software ...

Have you wanted to get into GPU programming with CUDA but found the usual textbooks and guides a bit too intense? Well, help is at hand in the form of a series of increasingly difficult programming ...

The nblock() function reports how many disk blocks the file uses. This calculation is based on the file's size as returned by stat(). The V7 block size was 512 bytes--the size of a physical disk ...