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This is a hardcore CS book. It's not for beginners. It's not even really a good fit for an American-style CS undergrad course on operating systems. That's be
by cxr 3y ago
This is a hardcore CS book. It's not for beginners. It's not even really a good fit for an American-style CS undergrad course on operating systems.
That's before getting into all the errata for the places where what was written in the book diverges from the actual system implementation.
- tcbawo 3y agoThank you for elaborating on my question. I haven’t read the book, so I have no idea where it fits into a general curriculum. Having grown up in the 8-bit home computing era where a user could wrap their head around the entire computer and OS, the idea of building a broad base of fundamentals sounds attractive. Would you put this at the same level of difficulty as SICP, which another commenter suggested?
- cxr 3y agoI haven't read SICP in its entirety, but that sounds wrong. SICP is explicitly for an intro to programming course, and it's written in a way that's approachable for first-time programmers from what I remember.