From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 11 9:57:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F310237B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:57:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rootman@xmission.com) Received: from [166.70.7.33] (helo=blackmirror.xmission.com) by mail.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14cA5b-00080y-00; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:57:07 -0700 From: Joe Warner To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: Looking for Yoda Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:45:23 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: "Tyler K McGeorge" , "Damien Tougas" , References: <20010310230724.A292@sprig.tougas.net> <01031110255100.00538@blackmirror.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01031110565703.00538@blackmirror.xmission.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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 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