RE: Kernel Education

["Khushil Dep" <khushil.dep@help.basilica.co.uk>]

Before you start in on the Linux kernel I'd suggest you get you students well grounded in operating systems theory. It's a rather huge field of study but just teaching people bits of the kernel is going to be a waste of time if they don't have the comprehension of the whole.

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Khushil Dep

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Weber Ress
Sent: 09 January 2006 13:25
To: Jiri Slaby
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Education

When I say "more simple" kernel version, I would like say "more
didactics" to teach.

thank´s to all replies.

Best,

Weber Ress

On 1/9/06, Jiri Slaby <slaby@liberouter.org> wrote:
> Weber Ress napsal(a):
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I´m starting a social project to teach kernel development for young
> > students, with objetive of include these people in job market.
> :)
> >
> > These studentes don´t have great skills in mathematical and computer
> > science areas, but have great interest in development area. Some
> > studentes have a little basic C language skills.
> >
> > Which are the first steps that I need in this project ?
> prepare slides for teaching them real-world-(gc)c, not basic.
> > Which´s the "more simple" kernel version to teach (2.2 ? 2.4 ? 2.6 ?).
> IMHO 2.6 has the clearest api (specific(a) rather than sth. like
> a->private->b->private.specific).
> But in general it's hard to say this is the simplest one. In 2.2 there is less
> code, than in 2.6 and so on
>
> regards,
> --
> Jiri Slaby         www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby
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>
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