From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.90.74.62] (helo=babel.hpcc.noaa.gov) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15Yrdd-0002h3-00 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:10:53 -0400 Received: from localhost (jwantz@localhost) by babel.hpcc.noaa.gov (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f7KFOGe20145; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:24:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:24:16 -0400 (EDT) From: To: Amanda Lee cc: Subject: Re: lookin' good In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi Amanda, >>From Cobol to C, that is quite a transition! My offer to help extends to you too of course--besides I understand from somebody that you are a n escapee from the Florida State Prison otherwise known as Florida D&B. If you can survive that you can make the transition to UNIX and C easily! (big grin). As far as C programming is concerned you should probably get a book like C Primer Plus. Of course you should definitely get the Kernighan and Ritchie book but I wouldn't read that one first. A good introductory book for UNIX is Exploring Unix and I think the authors were Kochan and Wood You can write me at jwantz@home.com and I'll look through my books at home and give you a better idea. As I'm sure you guessed I too spent six years at St. Augustine. A few years before you though, I'm afraid. Jim Wantz On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Amanda Lee wrote: > If you know of etext C Books,please write me offline. My new job is Unix > and C and C is not my strongest language as I was a Mainframe Developer in > IBM/370 Assembler and COBOL in my former life! > > Thanks! - Amanda Lee > > > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 jwantz@hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > > > Scott, if you need any help with C I'd be glad to help. I love teaching > > that language! > > > > 73s > > Jim WB0TFK > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Scott Howell wrote: > > > > > Well, I don't know any programming language, but hope to learn soon. I'm > > > actually very interested in C, Perl, etc. Gotten pretty fair with Html and > > > that's been interesting. In any case I digress. I can fully appreciate > > > dreaming about solutions, but I think mine were kinda nightmarish in > > > nature. Apt-get install this and that and this and that and on and on and > > > it was really scary stuff after while.Not to mention before all that it > > > was partitioning and hacking on reasons why things wouldn't boot and it > > > was really nuts. I think this is a part of the process for figuring stuff > > > out. Lastnight it was cooking kernels and I swear I had a dream I was > > > roasting kernels on the grill or something. Was all insane, but well > > > whatever works. The mind is a very scary playground or at least mine seems > > > to be. > > > > > > cul > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Scott > > > > > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > > > > > Scott: > > > > > > > > I can't tell you how often this has worked for me. Particularly, on a > > > > large programming project many many years ago, it actually became a > > > > reliable pattern for me. I would find myself stuck sometime late in the > > > > evening--usually around midnight. I just couldn't figure what was wrong. I > > > > learned to go to sleep. > > > > > > > > Sure enough. Somewhere around maybe 4, maybe 5, I'd jump out of bed having > > > > awakened with a start. I actually dreamed the solution. Over and over > > > > again, time after time, I'd run to the computer and make the change. > > > > Bingo! Everything worked. And, then, it was on to the next problem, and on > > > > to the next point of frustration and confusion, etc., etc., etc. > > > > > > > > PS: Lest you think I lived on 4 hours sleep, that's approximately correct. > > > > But these were pgrogramming jags of one to three weeks--with weeks off > > > > inbetween. Meanwhile, I would also take a nap of around half an hour > > > > somewhere early to mid afternoon. It's the nap that actually kept me going > > > > on this kind of crazy schedule. > > > > > > > > Ah, the days of being free and fancy loose to just write, write, write. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >