* On 2012 04 Nov 10:54 -0600, lina wrote: > On Monday 05,November,2012 12:45 AM, Neal Murphy wrote: > > *How* and *how fast* you learn don't matter. *That* you learn does. > > Very encouraging and inspiring.
I'm coming in late. I wanted to learn C for years from back in the days when I started with MS-DOS in the late 1980s. I had a few books and bought the Borland Turbo C++ compiler but nothing gave me a context of how it fit together. When I started playing with Slackware Linux in 1996 the philosophy of Linux and programming began to fit very well in my mind. I'm not a super C coder and I lack formal training, but I do manage to contribute to and maintain a project that is upstream of Debian. It is something that I find personally rewarding. I have found that my learning is when I find code that does something similar to what I want to do that I can modify to what I need complemented with the language manual. That mimics what works for me with mechanical and electronic things where if I can disassemble it, I can figure it out and possibly fix a problem. I think I didn't like elementary school all that much because it was so little hands-on. I excelled in classes where hands-on work was combined with book theory. Once you understand the process by which you learn, you can learn anything with that approach. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121104174901.gd4...@n0nb.us
