Re: university studies?

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:22:00PM +0800,  peter revill wrote:
> Ok, im 16 and looking at heading into uni as soon as ive finished year
> 12.  I'm gonna head on over to uni, i am wondering out of curiosity
> what courses most kernel developers have done? im going to do either
> bachelour of computer science, or information technology, at a later
> date, when im done my studies im hoping to help with kernel
> developing, mozilla etc. etc., so i was wondering what people would
> consider the course that gives you "kernel development" sort of
> skillset-mindset any feedback is appriciated, please CC it to my mail
> adress at arevill@bigpond.net.au 

I'd suggest deep studies of Zen/Chan-buddhism, Taoism, logic,
discrete mathematics, c-programming, haskell or ml (functional
programming), algorithm-theory & analysis and a course or two
in operating-system theory.

At least, that's what I've studied. One could argue it didn't help
a lot, but...

The best thing of all to study is source-code, though. Learn from those
who already mastered the art of programming. I've head that Plan 9 is
available as source-code. Get it and learn from the best.


/David
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