This book is a practical introduction on how to build and debug programs in Linux.

The book covers the following topics:
* building a program, compilation and linking
* overview of GNU C/C++ compiler
* building programs from multiple modules
* make and makefiles
* static and dynamic libraries in Linux
* debugging programs
* detecting memory leaks

The book is addressed to beginners in Linux programming as well as those who have programmed using other environments and operating systems before (Windows, for example) and who now want to learn how to develop programs in Linux.