From: epicblood@gmail.com (Joris Bolsens)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Learning things
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:07:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5522BD47.1070904@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9663.1428339726@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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In that case do you have any general recommendations? Or is there some
sort of project that covers most of the basics? I learn best by doing
and most stuff I found online goes pretty slow and is a bit boring :/
Thanks a ton
On 04/06/2015 10:02 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:43:46 -0700, Joris Bolsens said:
>
>> I'm working on trying to teach myself C and was wondering if you
>> had any kernel specific recommendations.
>
> Don't bother trying until you have an actual good working knowledge
> of C.
>
> Work in userspace where your screw-ups just take the process out,
> not the entire system, until stuff like a SIGSEGV becomes a rarity.
> *THEN* start considering kernel work.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-06 17:07 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 [this message]
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
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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