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Ask HN - I need a greybeard mentor

3 points·factorialboy··3 comments

I've done plenty of web and enterprise app development. Occasional stints with mobile and desktop apps as well.

I am getting bored.

I need a greybeard to help me keeping my programming career rewarding.

As a start, read and understand http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Linux-Kernel-Third-Editi... (that's a very technical and in-depth book) and http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-3rd-Edition/d... (that's a more gentle overview book) then dive in with http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Filesystems-Evolution-Design-Impl... and write a very simple file system.

Learn C as necessary.

The FreeBSD kernel book is worth a look too: http://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operatin...

Were you looking for something more in terms of systems programming?

Perhaps. I'm not sure, I'm open to it.

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