Course Summary
RHD143 Red Hat Linux Programming Essentials is an intensive hands-on course designed to rapidly train key skills for developing applications and programs on Red Hat Linux. This 5-day course provides hands-on training, concepts, demonstrations, with emphasis on realistic labs and programming exercises. Upon completion of the course students will have learned and practiced the essential skills required to develop programs for Linux systems.

Goal:
Learn concepts and skills essential to programming and software development for Linux-based applications and products.

Audience:
Experienced C programmers (with UNIX or Linux workstation power user skills) interested in beginning to develop applications on Linux.

Prerequisites:

• Experience in C programming
• RH133 or equivalent UNIX or Linux workstation user skills for developers
• Shell scripting in a UNIX or Linux environment
• Experience with editors such as vi, emacs

Price:

Duration:
5 days
Training Start Time: 9:00 a.m.
Training End Time: 4:30-5:00PM (depending on class progress)

Prepares for:
RHD221 - Red Hat Linux Device Drivers or RHD260 Gnome, GTK+ Programming

What you will learn:

• Tools and methods for developing C programs for Linux
• Shell programming essentials
• Makefiles
• Version control
• Compiling, linking and debugging
• Linux standards and compliance
• File access system calls and I/O
• Programming file and directory system services
• Processes management and creation
• Signals, Signal Handlers and Alarms
• Inter-process communication (shared memory, semaphores, messages)
• Threads
• Semaphores
• Pipes and FIFOs
• Shared Memory
• Message Queues
• Sockets