Re: Advancing from Unix Sysadmin to Programmer

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 20:08:25 GMT

On Thu, 20 May 2004, Otto Wyss wrote:

> While there is no substitute for experience, experience can be aquired
> through hard work. IMO the best way to aquire experience without being
> fired by the boss is to participate in any OpenSource project. I'd
> choose a medium size project since it probably is easier to look
> through. The advantage of OpenSource project is your code is viewed by
> others and if you make errors they will immediately be critisiced. And
> the most important reason if you make valuable contributions any other
> error will be forgiven.

That is some good advice, but beware the flip-side: not all open source
code necessarily follows good programming techniques and some have
arguably horrible code layout standards. 

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