The term “hacking” has come a long way from it’s late-1950’s origins (and even that was a relatively new usage then), and today it seems to have taken on generally negative connotations, which the author digs into briefly in the introduction; From then on, the language politics are left aside as the reader through an introduction to C programming while showing how the C code runs at a lower level.

Coding is done in C using the included boot-able Linux CD that allows you to run Linux without having to install it. Included on the CD is the Linux OS, the More >