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I'm training my nephew, he's living with me while going to college in the philadelphia. He's been getting really frustrated hearing platitudes like this from hi
by MollyR 10y ago
I'm training my nephew, he's living with me while going to college in the philadelphia.
He's been getting really frustrated hearing platitudes like this from his professors.
I've basically been mentoring him and having him read https://github.com/braydie/HowToBeAProgrammer https://github.com/braydie/HowToBeAProgrammer , Comp Science with Python, and a couple books on linux and C to help with some lower level stuff.
He's been struggling a lot with C and Linux concepts. I've been there to help, and now I have strong opinion C and Linux would make a lot of programmers have a better understanding of their programs and computers.
- keyboardhitter 10y agoI agree that it would help with a better understanding. I can't help but wonder why aspiring sysadmins and programmers DO NOT have immediate interest in such things? To me it just 'made sense' and 'clicked' almost immediately. Maybe I learned from a different angle, but it seems obvious to me to want to learn these things (C and Linux fundamentals, I mean).
- MollyR 10y agoI don't know for sure but. I noticed a lot of his class notes were written for windows and mac users. Also a lot of it was focused on java and python. I wonder if C and Linux classes became higher level electives.