On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 05:22:08PM +0200, Gilles Chehade wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:09:47PM -0300, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote:
> > Tedu's suggestion is the best one in my IMHO, implement a webserver.
> >
> > I would try to do the following:
> > - Read K&R
> > - Join ##c on freenode, they can help a *lot*.
> > - Read manpages of every function.
> > - Code small UNIX utilities, start with cat, then wc.
> > - Code something like a webserver, this is where you'll actually learn.
> >
>
> Actually, before a webserver, I'd recommend learning how to write a shell
> as it will have you deal with lots of concepts you would not see
> otherwise ... then network programming :-p
Just because you suffered thru a fucked-up education that's
ass-backwards doesn't mean you should wish it on other people.
('may you live in interesting times', the old chinese curse).
A shell is one of the most complicated pieces of C code to get right,
between the fucked-up parser, the lazy evaluation, the arcane shit you
have to do to various file descriptors, and the signal handling.
Among other things.
Heck, write your own kernel, it's simpler ;)
