The latest book by University of Engineering & Technology Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Syed Mansoor Sarwar, Unix: The Textbook, Third Edition, has been ranked 11th in Bookauthority’s ranking of Best Unix Books of All Time.
The list was compiled based on the recommendations by top software engineers: Tim O’Reilly, Julia Evans, Garry Tan and James Hong. As featured on CNN, Forbes and Inc, BookAuthority identifies and ranks the best books in the world based on public mentions, recommendations, ratings, and sentiment.
The UNIX operating system was authored in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Labs research centre. It is a robust and much safer system compared to other operating systems including Microsoft Windows
The book was published in November 2016 by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida, the United States of America. The first two edition of the book were published by Addison-Wesley, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Informa and Pearson are top-20 ranked publishers in the world. The first edition of the book was translated into the Chinese and Spanish languages too.
The UNIX operating system was authored in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Labs research centre. It is a robust and much safer system compared to other operating systems including Microsoft Windows. Most of the Internet servers run on UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems.
Dr Sarwar’s books have been used in over 200 US colleges and universities, including the University of Texas at Austin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Arizona, Stevens Tech, University of California at Santa Barbara, and Syracuse University. These books are also being taught in several other countries including Canada, UK, Belgium, and Australia. The Chinese and Spanish translations of my books are being used in China, Hong Kong, Spain, and Mexico. The US Navy in is using UNIX: The Textbook, Third Edition for one of its training programmes.