If you are looking for help, there are tons of places to turn to, though not all of them will immediately be accessible. Remember that Unix is actually really user friendly, except that it chooses it's friends with GREAT care. Please don't mail me asking me how to write your editor, that's precisely why I put this up! My own editor is here but it was written for DOS and is old AND unmaintained code. The source is available though if you want to play with it and look at the architecture and poke fun at it as well.
These books are generic books that are of use in programming on Linux. The first book is a gentle and skin deep introduction to a large number of the elements of Linux programming and is highly recommended for newbies to buy. It has a section on ncurses, but is severly limited. The rest of the books are mainly solid references that you should have lying around, but not the ideal books to start learning anything.
If your favourite book is missing from here, send me a note telling me why is should be there and I'll see if it can be fit in somewhere as well.
Linux India has three lists which are meant for three different reasons. These are
Unless for very extenuating reasons, LIP should be the only list on which you should ask programming questions. For more information, please go to the main Lists page. And oh yes, before asking a question please read the archives. And before you post you might want read up on some etiquette at at Biju's etiquette help.