On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:30:58 GMT "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Orestes leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi folks, 2 weeks ago I began to learn C, my advances are very > > good, my question it's that, The topic sounds funny but it's mostly > > serious, > > > > QUESTION: Studying C 'every day' 4 hours with good understanding, > > writing at least 10 programs to test this knowledge every day, the > > question it: How Long Can I become a very 'very' good C programmer > > to the point to hack in some kernel of some system or writing good > > apps without some trouble? > > Have you looked at the kernel source? yeah, to the ata drivers and many more, > Can you make heads or tails of > it? In the 'hard' areas not yet, but i'm making progress learning from various packages like coreutils and compiz. > How long do *you* think it would take, based on your progression > so far? I think 4 to 6 years to be optimistic, i'm wrong? > Some of that stuff (memory management) makes Linus' eyes cross. > > As for writing apps, consider looking into wxwindows, FLTK, and Simple > DirectMedia Layer (SDL), libraries which may help. SDL is at > http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Creating_a_Window I think. They can all > be found in Debian repositories and google. I *think* I like SDL the > most from what I've seen, but your goals may/will differ. yeah, I use SDL since I learned C so I think that it's a very simple API, but I'm far away fro be a good c programmer since that I beend around with C for about 2 an a falf week or so. Thanks for your replies, Best regards, Orestes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
