Course Description

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.

What you will learn:

Course Outline

• 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
• Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)
• Multiplexed and Asynchronous I/O

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

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.

Class times:

• Monday through Friday
  • Start: 9:00am
  • End: 4:30 to 5:00pm (depending on class progress)