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Interview of distinguished programmers

Sukumar — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:23:08 +0000

Jarosław Rzeszótko from Poland decided to interview distinguished programmers.

Linus Torvalds – The Linux kernel author

Dave Thomas – Author of the “Pragmmatic Programmer”, “Programming Ruby” and other great books about programming. One can read his mainly programming-related thoughts here.

David Heinemeier Hansson – Author of the Rails Framework – the new hot web development framework. He has a weblog here.

Steve Yegge – Probably the least known from guys here, but also made one of the most interestings answers, has a popular weblog about programming. He is also the author of a game called “Wyvern”.

Peter Norvig – Research Director at Google, a well known Lisper, author of famous (in some circles at least) books about AI. See his homepage.

Guido Van Rossum – The Python language creator

Bjarne Stroustrup – C++ creator, has a homepage here

James Gosling – The Java language creator

Tim Bray – One of the XML and Atom specifications author and a blogger too.

An excellent read.

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PythonTurtle – Python learning environment for beginners and children

Sukumar — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:47:58 +0000

PythonTurtle is a fun and interesting way to learn python for beginners and children.

According to the website,

PythonTurtle strives to provide the lowest-threshold way to learn Python. Students command an interactive Python shell (similar to the IDLE development environment) and use Python functions to move a turtle displayed on the screen. An illustrated help screen introduces the student to the basics of Python programming while demonstrating how to move the turtle.

Resources:
Source Code
Get installer from home page

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How to create your own UNIX clone Operating System

Sukumar — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:11:53 +0000

Working on operating systems can be a lot of fun while learning some of the most difficult concepts in programming. One needs to have a basic set of knowledge and skills such as

Basics of programming: variables, references, data types, scope, pointers, error handling, iteration, core algorithms related to searching, sorting, and so on
Basics of maths and statistics: hexadecimal, binary, boolean logic, probability and so on
Assembly: Knowledge of a low level language is very essential and part of writing an OS
Languages: While C, C++ are the most widely used, one can also go with java, haskell, lisp etc.
Linux / Unix: Experience on linux or UNIX based platforms is needed for using tools required for OS development
Tools: Familiarity in working with compilers, assemblers, linkers and make utility

Getting started:
Alt OS Development FAQ
OS Dev getting started

Resources:
JamesM’s kernel development tutorials
OS development wiki and OS development forums
Tutorials from osdever.net
alt.os.development
Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manuals
Intel 80386 Programmer’s Reference Manual
OSRC: The Operating System Resource Center
Implementing an Operating System – By Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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