Linux Programming By Example: Kurt Wall
Posted by Mark on December 14th, 2005
This book is a seemingly random collection of various programming topics (all in C). However, it is also a very well written and useful random collection of various programming topics 
By providing me with some basic (never very detailed) help and pointers on RCS, IPC, Socket Programming, Ncurses, and gdb, this book prevented me from having to go out and buy about six different books. In that regard it has turned out to be quite a useful reference to have around. Actually, for the help in creating Makefiles alone, it was worth the price.