What should I do with my skills?
>inb4 rust
>inb4 lisp
>inb4 memelangs
I know C
Robert Turner
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Luke Thomas
Contriboot to the Linux kernel.
Kayden Taylor
Learn C++.
Then learn Rust.
Joseph Young
do projects
show projects to employers
support patreon artists specializing in your specific fetish
y'know, basic contributing to society shit
Josiah Garcia
What kind of projects? Gimme an idea
Cameron Fisher
>I know C
At what level of competency? What does your experience consist of?
Camden Diaz
write a compiler
Elijah Collins
The fundamentals, I am good with pointers, etc. Some keywords and code still confuse me, but I can just look it up. Never contributed to a project.
Robert Adams
But I'm a MIT nigger
Ian Smith
buy a copy of "the unix programming environment" by K&P. do all of the things it says. C isn't very useful if you just know what pointers do, you have to know it in some sort of context.
John Mitchell
Will do
Levi Collins
writing a toy compiler isn't very hard, yet its a non-trivial thing that you can extend pretty endlessly. it's a project with very clear goals that uses all of the features of the language.
Robert Adams
Find a project you already use as a user. Fix bugs, or add features. OR fix documentation, which is a great way to get into a project. Every project I've ever coded in, I began with documentation fixes.
Perhaps add a missing feature required by POSIX into a BSD or GNU utility. The BSD projects are all very friendly.
I intend to begin contributing to Pidgin next, myself.
Jeremiah Harris
Okay. I'm just learning C myself and plan on doing:
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
OSTEP
Programming Massively Parallel Processors.
Any fa/g/s here care to chime in? I switched from software to CS and wondering if I shot myself in the foot because I won't have the cool portfolio I see a bunch of people have.
Josiah Young
Take a look at Google Summer of Code projects. The projects will be too hard for you, but you can do easier stuff for the same foundations/softwares.
John Richardson
Found this not too long ago. You use C to make a pascal interpreter.
Anthony Sanchez
oh yeah? write the necessary pointer arithmetic to find the offset of where to place an arbitrary object(struct) in a buffer, with regard to alignment
Brandon Price
pick up kernel programming and contribute to open source
Connor Parker
Learn Nim and become productive.
Chase Parker
literally ...
> whoah ....
> I knuuuh ... Kungfuuuuh
Sebastian Young
but he doesn't want to cut his dick off