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Systems Programming Anonymous 11/20/15 (Fri) 02:16:07 293939 No.3607

I'm really interested and wanting to get into systems programming. drivers, compilers, kernels… all that jazz. I have currently come out of university with a CS degree mainly focused on Java and work solely in Linux.

I want to learn C/C++ whilst learning sysprogramming, so it's not vastly different from Java. I know the concepts of programming(algorithms, data structures, procedural and object orientated programming), will just need to learn the C syntax and additional things Java doesn't deal with (malloc etc).

What would you recommend to help me get into systems programming?

Anonymous 11/24/15 (Tue) 02:57:46 0eedbc No.3631

>>3607

There was a great pdf about C a while ago, but the drive I had it stored on broke. It was titled simply "The C Programming Language" Also, try downloading the Gentoomen Library. You should be able to find it in there.

Anonymous 11/25/15 (Wed) 17:51:03 acac00 No.3633

>> 3607

> I have currently come out of university with a CS degree mainly focused on Java

Holy fuck, what do they teach you kids nowadays? A CS degree and then being proficient in only one language and not knowing the fundamentals of computing?

Holy shit. No child left behind shows …>>3607

Anonymous 11/25/15 (Wed) 17:58:16 526e4f No.3634

>>3633

They taught us vi, bash commands and scripting, pseudocode, assembly, C (embedded), Python, HTML, and Java at my community college in that order.

SageAnonMF 11/26/15 (Thu) 02:40:26 3ca5bb No.3635

You gotta force yourself man, try writing Object Oriented C, then write a basic interpreter (or VM, ASM-interpreter I guess), then finally write a small kernel that can fork processes. That's how I did it coming from Python/PHP and I got pretty good at doing system's C.

Anonymous 11/26/15 (Thu) 08:02:34 35b040 No.3638

>>3633

It's pretty bad. Most college grads can't do fizzbuzz in an interview.