Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:45:23 -0700 From: Joe Warner <rootman@xmission.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: "Tyler K McGeorge" <treznor@sunflower.com>, "Damien Tougas" <damien@carroll.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Looking for Yoda Message-ID: <01031110565703.00538@blackmirror.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpofv82oek.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <20010310230724.A292@sprig.tougas.net> <01031110255100.00538@blackmirror.xmission.com> <xzpofv82oek.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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>And read source code, and toy with it. Find > something in /usr/src that's not too big, make modifications and see > how they affect the program's behaviour. Indeed. I had thought of this some time ago. One of the main advantages of Open Source. I had thought of doing this with the source for a simple text editor that I don't use very often. > Programming C, or hacking FreeBSD? The prior. >I switched to C after several years of BASIC and Pascal, >on a recommendation from my eldest brother. Do you recommend starting with another language as a stepping stone before diving into C or is it all right to just begin with C? >The kernel scared the beejezus out of me at that time :) It would probably cause me to have a stroke, I've only done "Hello World". 8^) Joe On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Joe Warner <rootman@xmission.com> writes: > > What's the next step? Start reading my books? > > Pretty much, yeah. And read source code, and toy with it. Find > something in /usr/src that's not too big, make modifications and see > how they affect the program's behaviour. > > > How did you get started? > > Programming C, or hacking FreeBSD? I switched to C after several years > of BASIC and Pascal, on a recommendation from my eldest brother. I got > my FreeBSD commit privileges for fixing deadlocks in the console > driver which I stumbled over while toying with Mike's splashkit and > trying to write a graphical screensaver (which later became > logo_saver). Prior to that, I had submitted a handful of PRs about > bugs in configuration files and scripts. The kernel scared the > beejezus out of me at that time :) > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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