8/25 Basic Unix classes recommendations: Berkeley Extension or others?
Profs? Things to stay away from, advice, gotchas, etc. Halp!
Advice for a friend needed.
\_ cs9e, a difficult 1 unit course offered at cal. basically
you have to read unix system V by mark sobell in its entirety.
I do not recommend the course unless you plan on using
awk, sed, the regexp library, or shell programming.
You may be better off with the O'Reily Perl book.
\_ Don't bother with cs9e; it's sort of informative, but involves
an absurd amount of drudgery for a 1-unit class. If you can
set up a Free/Net/OpenBSD box and get hold of the 9e course
reader/guide from someone who's taken it, you're ok. -John
\_ Come to CSUA help sessions; start with the intro to unix one,
whenever that is.
\_junior college classes...screw cs9e. or learn
from ranga's book, "Shell programming" from Sams.
It appears to go over basic UNIX quite well.
\_ Who are you and why are you plugging my book?
----ranga
\_ Whatever you do, don't take cs9e. -been there, suffered that
\_ cs9x all suck ass. i took cs9c, and failed because i didn't
to all of their lame fucking assigments. they dont teach how
to program, they just test the ability to jump through lame hoops
. kind of like school in general, only much worse, and the TA's
are often dicks.
\_ The semester I took 9e, I counted about 49% failures on the
grade sheet posted outside. I passed, but it was more work
and more reading than I could imagine. I dont think
learning to make an interactive database solely out of
shell commands and pipes is a useful task, and I regret
having learned so many non-useful things. |
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