Given that time has become our most precious resource, it's no surprise that publishers including Sam's Technical Publishing should introduce an entire series of titles that promise to teach some of the most complex programming skills in a short 24 hours. This is, of course, assuming a total of 24...

IT RELATED TERMS UNIX A high-level programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the mid 1970s. Although originally designed as a systems programming language, C has proved to be a powerful and flexible language that can be used for a variety of applications, from business...