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Which books are really MUST read for a person who attempts to create a critical parts of application(s) in security field, e.g. driver which are dealing with coding/decoding, firewall, kernel subsystem which rely on checking of rights/policies, a secure mail client, etc.
Are there any specific books covering applied C programming topics in field like this? Like how to design/write secure code, what are the common attacks your program must be resistant to and the like?
In my opinion, these are must-reads:
Cryptography in C and C++ - http://www.amazon.com/Cryptography-C-Michael-Welschenbach/dp/1590595025/
Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++: Recipes for Cryptography, Authentication, Input Validation & More - http://www.amazon.com/Secure-Programming-Cookbook-Cryptography-Authentication/dp/0596003943/
Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications - http://www.amazon.com/Cryptography-Engineering-Principles-Practical-Applications/dp/0470474246/
Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt - http://www.amazon.com/Security-Metrics-Replacing-Uncertainty-Doubt/dp/0321349989/
Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems - http://www.amazon.com/Security-Engineering-Building-Dependable-Distributed/dp/0470068523/ (High-level, management issues, etc.)
The following book deserves honorable mention, although many experts repudiate it these days. However, some say it is the best book on the subject, so judge for yourself:
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition - http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Cryptography-Protocols-Algorithms-Source/dp/0471117099/
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I have made a C application using vs 2010 and have followed lowercase with underscores as the naming convention for variables and functions in the application. I am asked to follow the camel case in the entire application. I want to ask whether this is the correct approach for the naming convention in c if yes then Is there any tool that can convert all the variables and functions to camel case in the existing c application.
Coding standards vary from company to company. Most mature companies have one, and there is probably some old code lying about somewhere that doesn't follow it.
As long as the coding is done to a consistent style, so you know the name of the function that checks if the car-door is open in your application, whether it is called car_door_open, CarDoorOpen, cardoorisopen matters a lot less. The key is consistency.
I'm not aware of a tool that can rename all identifiers in your code, but modern IDE's have a "rename this identifier", which can be really helpful for these type of things.
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I really would love to go through the experience of building a compiler, lexer, and so on using C, however I havn't found a single resource on creating one. I've read the book about creating your own language using Ruby, but it just talks about how C is the best option, and won't tell you where to go from there.
Is their any nice resources for building a language using C? I don't care how long it is, I just want to know how to build one.
One of the nice things about compilers/interpreters is that it doesn't really matter what language they are written in. In the final stage they will just be an executable on someone's machine.
That being said while writing my compiler (something I am currently doing) I have used several books that have been extremely helpful:
Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth
Compilers Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Jeffrey Ullman, Alfred Aho, Ravi Sethi
The Wirth book will walk you through all the stages of creating a compiler for a language called Oberon-0. It also has the entire source code for his finished compiler, so you can play around with it on your own machine. The compiler itself was written in Pascal (something else that Wirth created).
The Dragon Book has really good information and examples in C! This may be what you are looking for, but as I said above, the language you write the compiler in isn't all that important.
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still yet i have seen that most of the embedded application are written in c.
Most of the libraries are written in c.
Device-driver are written in c.
So i want to ask you is there any logical reason behind this?
(My apologies if this post sounds silly/stupid. I thought I'd ask here. Ignoring these core bits never made anyone a better programmer.)
There are many reasons, including but not limited to:
It has access to many low level functions not accessible from many other languages.
It has existed for many many years and has lots of developers that are familiar with it.
If written well it's extremely efficient.
It gives almost complete control over memory etc.
It's very portable, largely due to the myriad of compilers written for it.
Because of Dennis Ritchie. C is easily the most portable language.
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Does anyone know any good (and recent) resources for designing expert systems?
As far as I know, there is not much recent development in expert systems. This book is a classic (last edition is from 2004).
we are taking an Expert systems course in our college and we are using this book :
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide to Intelligent Systems
and using Clips Language for programming expert systems
the book is pretty Good and discussing Modern topics ( see the latest version )
and it introduces well the parts related to fuzzy logic and neural networks which is related to ExpertSystems .
i recommend starting exploration from the internet and the book for some time
then start knowing the science from the book and implement using the CLIPS language
Clips tutorials
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I am looking for a really simple database implementation; basically one with no complex parsing SQL engine. What I am looking for is something demonstrating B+ trees and ACID storage (Suitable for educational purposes). What I have found up-till now form my current searches was hamster-db. I am looking for something even simpler with a smaller code-base. If there is any such opensource project in your knowledge please let me know.
The University of Wisconsin Databases group uses their own small relational database, minirel, to teach the undergraduate databases class. I just took it, actually; it's enlightening. My semester's assignments are posted publicly. I'm sure the faculty would be willing to part with the source code used at each step.
In the undergraduate class, we do not implement B+ trees or ACID components, but it appears that the larger project does include them.
You can try to look at OrientDB. Don't know if it's simpler than hamster-db, but it's open source, uses a mix of Red-Black Tree and B+Tree algorithms and supports ACID.