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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers From iOS programming to Linux system programming Post 302797389 by verdepollo on Monday 22nd of April 2013 01:23:29 PM
Old 04-22-2013
1) I'd say barely. It is useful since underlying platform is a lot similar to Unix and it gives you better understanding of how things work under the hood but -as an iOS programmer- you do not have direct access nor control of the OS, and all tasks *MUST* be performed with Cocoa/CocoaTouch framework tools.
Don't expect to be using SSH, grep, netstat, nfs, df, bash buit-ins, etc in any of your programs.

2) Again, you won't be dealing with syscalls, forking, IRQs, etc. It's not necessary at all; however it's a good plus. Even if you're into multi-threaded programming, Cocoa handles everything without (much) hassle.

3) I'm not a Linux programmer myself but if you are already proficient with Objective-C you're most certainly a capable C programmer so you'd at least be able to "talk" in same language. Now you'd only need to learn the internals of Linux and get familiar with its code.
Last edited by verdepollo; 04-22-2013 at 02:37 PM.. Reason: typo
 

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LABY(6) 							       Games								   LABY(6)

NAME

       laby - Learn programming playing with ants and spider webs

SYNOPSIS

       laby [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the laby command.

       In this game, you will have to move an ant out of a labyrinth, avoid spider webs, move rocks, etc... You have to click on "Reload" at
       startup.

OPTIONS

       --help
	   Display help message

       --version
	   Show versioning information

       --lang=l
	   Select a programming language

       --sound
	   Enable/Disable sounds

       --tile-size=n
	   Set tile's size in pixels

       --conf
	   Set a configuration key

       --conf-descr=key
	   Describe a configuration key

       --conf-dump
	   Dump a configutation key

       --debug=d
	   Select debug level where d is an integer

LICENSE

       This manual page was written by Mehdi Dogguy dogguy@pps.jussieu.fr for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission
       is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later
       version published by the Free Software Foundation; considering as source code all the file that enable the production of this manpage.

AUTHOR

       Mehdi Dogguy <dogguy@pps.jussieu.fr>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009 Mehdi Dogguy

laby								   May 13, 2009 							   LABY(6)
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