Some links with information about programming languages that are useful when programming the kernel. When adding links, please group them by category or from most basic to most advanced.

C

• Wikipedia's entry on the C programming language

• CProgramming.com Tutorials on C and C++

• Introduction to C A long web page on C

• Zed's Learn C the Hard Way Alpha release

• C quick reference card (pdf)

• C Cheat Sheet (pdf) - actually a lot longer than one sheet, it's like a more detailed version of a quick reference card

• ISO-9899 Group's book recommendations

• Open-Standard Standard Latest draft standard for C

• About the C standards

• C Library reference guide

• IEEE/Open Group POSIX specification; Linux systems

Assembler

• Programming from the Ground up Downloadable PDF

• Intel Assembler 80x86 CodeTable an overview of the x86 assembler instructions, on one sheet of paper

  • if the above page is down, try this cache

• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List exhaustive info about just about every interrupt for the x86/DOS environment, especially useful for the detailed info about BIOS calls here

• PC Assembly Tutorial

• Sandpile.org hardware and software information about x86 and x86-64 CPUs

Perl

• another quick reference card

• Rex Swain's HTMLified Perl 5 Reference Guide - much more detailed than the cards

Python

• Basic Python Tutorial

Other links

• GNU Make manual

• GRUB From the Ground Up - a tutorial/introduction

• GRUB manual

• How to Debug Programs - an introduction

• How To Write Unmaintainable Code is a collection of excellent rules for writing code that nobody else can understand. It is an excellent article on how NOT to write programs