title: starting smartcard programming
body: <p>How could one get started with smartcards programming? I am asking here about all the toolkit he needs in order to get started: books, tutorials, hardware etc.</p>
  
  <p>I am planning in playing around with a couple of smartcards programmers and I am pretty new to this field.</p>
  
  <p><b>Edit:</b> I am mostly interested in programmers that play nice with Unix-like operating systems. Also, I am not sure how this works ... but I would like to program them in C/C++</p>