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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Learning things
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 19:17:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150406171744.GA14653@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5522C5D2.3080404@linux.com>

On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 10:43:46AM -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote:
> Hey list,
> 
> I'm working on trying to teach myself C and was wondering if you had any
> kernel specific recommendations. I started the eudyptula challenge but
> so far it seems to be mostly learning the standards and whatnot. Are
> there any kernel/C books or online tutorials you guys think would help?

Don't learn C with kernel code, please take a few years really learning
the language in userspace, with one of the other thousands of other
userspace programs that could use help that are written in C.

Good luck,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-06 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-06 17:43 Learning things Joris Bolsens
2015-04-06 17:02 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-04-06 17:07   ` Joris Bolsens
2015-04-06 17:14     ` Jeff Haran
2015-04-06 23:09       ` Joris Bolsens
2015-04-06 17:05 ` Jeff Haran
2015-04-06 17:17 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-04-06 18:38   ` Mike Thompson
2015-04-07  4:06     ` Anupam Kapoor
2015-04-07 12:43       ` Malte Vesper
2015-04-07 13:56         ` Miles Fidelman

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