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Communities:

Learners

Experts

Goals

1) Learn modern C (including tools and patterns for writing safe C).

  • Month: See goal 2: finish a self-contained project.
  • Week: Read at least 1 book, start writing throwaway code.
  • Day: Order the C books you want to read!

2) Reimplement a nontrivial text-processing tool from scratch. (grep, sed, diff)

  • Month: Finish and release the first project.
  • Week: Pick a tool, set up a project and test framework.
  • Day: Start a development blog.

3) Reimplement a nontrivial process-related tool from scratch. (ps, top, lsof, kill)

  • Month: Work on 2 first :)

4) Reimplement a nontrivial networking-related tool from scratch. (telnet, ftp, curl/wget)

  • Month: Work on 3 first :)

5) Contribute a change to the Linux (or BSD or whatever) kernel

  • Month: Work on 1-4 first :)
  • Week: Dip into the LKML every day.
  • Day: Read through the "Linux Kernel Newbies" site. Pick a book on Linux programming.
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