Re: Advancing from Unix Sysadmin to Programmer
From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_kth.se)
Date: 05/20/04
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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:28:32 +0200
Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:
> 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.
The same can be said about commercial closed source code. The
difference is only that nobody knows which programs have terrible
code.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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