Re: Need for tutorials

[Ashok Sharma <aks6d@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

It has be a learning experience reading the threads
related to the topic "Need for tutorials".

For a newcomer like me the real problem is what to do
or where to start? 

Thus tutorials will be a great help.

Best
Ashok



--- Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, taha hafeez wrote:
> 
> > I feel (may be i am wrong!!!) that there is a need
> for tutorials to help
> > build the basis for the newbies so that they are
> competent enough to
> > understand the mailing list....
> 
> I like this idea, but am not sure in what form such
> tutorials
> could be.  I am familiar with the tutorials given at
> conferences,
> in which an audience gets taught how to write a
> device driver,
> debug the kernel, etc..
> 
> Linux also has "skeleton" device drivers, which
> provide a
> framework for writing new drivers.
> 
> Since these kinds of tutorials and guidelines need a
> kernel
> source tree and a compiler to work, I'm not sure how
> they could
> possibly done as online tutorials...
> 
> What kind of tutorial did you have in mind ?
> 
> -- 
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in
> the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as
> possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -
> Brian W. Kernighan
> 
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