[aklug] Re: tip for learning a new language

On 11/03/2012 11:05 PM, bryanm@acsalaska.net wrote:
> This student has a suggestion for learning a new language:
> reimplement unix utilities.
>
> http://www.rodrigoalvesvieira.com/copy-unix/
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me. Anyone agree/disagree?
>
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> Bryan Medsker
> bryanm@acsalaska.net
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The ideal has some appeal. Yet, I think it would be more ideal for
enthusiastic student programmers to be spending time on creating new,
cool stuff we can use. For example, I've seen that some pretty fancy
games have come out of people trying to pick up pygames, or trying out
Haskell skills recently learned in class.

In the example given by the above link, the programmer implements the
the "cat" program by reading from files and then outputting to stdio.
Isn't that the sort of thing you would eventually be forced to learn
about when making just about any kind of program?

Now, if we get could a few of them /optimizing/ the existing standard
libraries, that would be another story...

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