Something related to C and C++

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Yes, you are right.
I think the way you said is a good way to practice, first read from the source, then write something myself.
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> On Mar 18, 2014, at 9:03, Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:54:50 +0800
> by <free7by at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> I got no chance to learn in college, cause I will graduate this
>> summer and I want find a job Unix-related, C-related, in my college,
>> I had not learn much in C and Unix, cause my college use Windows, and
>> not focus on C-related, and for me, I start learning these this year,
>> and I think I prefer read books just a little everyday, it can make
>> me continuously familiar with these material which I like work on. I
>> got four books in my hand now: C related, Unix related, FreeBSD
>> related, and C++ related. And I think that the src in FreeBSD base
>> system is a good way to practice C, like some simple utilities: echo,
>> ls, etc. And FreeBSD got many historical docs in base system, and I
>> think it is a great way to understand FreeBSD or Unix world more. The
>> only problem is that, I find no passion if I just learn, maybe this
>> will change after I got a related job.
> 
> just take any small program of your choice and try to write it again.
> You might look at the sources at the beginning but later you try to
> write a program by just using 'man program' to get the description. The
> closer your solution comes to the description, the better you are
> getting.
> 
> A question to the others. When I see these comments here, I wonder how
> bad university education got over time. Is this here typical now or
> just an exception.
> 
> Erich