Wow! Nice. That was eye-opening. Tried to check out your project but got a 404. Can you fix the link please?
On May 3, 10:47 pm, Jacob Lyles <jacob.ly...@gmail.com> wrote: > I learned a lot from a project in school when I made something similar > to what I described. I collected data from a set of wireless sensor > nodes and wrote it to a port on my web host. The data looks like this > "1, 2113". The first byte tells me whether the door to the room is > open or closed, and the last four bytes tell me the room number. On > the web host machine, I set up a simple multi-threaded server socket > listener to collect the data, check that it is the right format, and > write it to a SQL database. This taught me about Unix sockets and > pthreads. I wanted other people to be able to administer my web host, > so this taught me about Unix permissions. > > Since I was storing information in a SQL database, I had to create the > tables in the database and learn how to connect and write to it > programmatically. This taught me about SQL. I used the information > about whether a door was open or closed to dynamically update a > listing on a website that I wrote with Django. Installing Apache with > Django taught me some more about Unix permissions and Unix system > administration. And of course I learned a lot about web programming > with Django. > > There are lots of other projects that you can take on as well. Another > school project that taught me a lot about Unix system programming was > a benchmarking project. We benchmarked pretty much every piece of the > operating system with C (found the size of the processor caches > programmatically, tested raw disk reading and writing speed, file > cache size, network transfer speed, thread and process overhead, and > etc. ). Basically we replicated the Imbench suite. You can find the > project description > here:http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/wi09/cse221/project.html/. I pretty > much learned about every Unix system call there is from this project. > > If you use your imagination, you can think of many more. > > I recommend taking on a project if you want to really learn something > to use in the future. At the end, you will have a nice piece of work > that you can show to other people. Reading a book is the easy way out, > and you are probably just going to forget it all quickly if you don't > have a chance to use it. If you already know some stuff and want to > become an expert, then books are a good way to go. But you have to use > it to truly know it. > > > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Luke Pebody <luke.peb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To be honest, I'd go with the book option. But different people have > > different learning styles. > > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Jacob Lyles <jacob.ly...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For the basics, don't learn from a book. Install an apache server > >> running a Django site on a fresh Unix install and share administration > >> privileges with a friend. Then put a shared git repository on the > >> machine that you and your friend can access through ssh. Then use that > >> repository for version control on a simple server you write in c or > >> python that listens to a socket and then collects any data written to > >> that port and writes it to a database. Make your server multi-threaded > >> and asynchronous. Then test your server with a script to simulate > >> client activity. > > >> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:47 PM, viswanath emani > >> <viswanathsrigan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Unix by Sumithaba Das is also a very good book for beginners. > > >>> Regards, > >>> Viswanath. > > >>> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Amit Agarwal <lifea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>>> yeah, navathe is pretty good for Database ans SQL. > >>>> For UNIX, you can check "The Design of the Unix Operating System" by > >>>> Maurice J. Bach. Its the best book I have ever read on Operating systems > >>>> specially Unix. > > >>>> -Regards > >>>> Amit Agarwal > >>>> Contact: 09765348182 > >>>>www.amitagrwal.com > > >>>> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Bharath Raghavendran > >>>> <rbharat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>>>> your topic is "off-topic" .. which means if you are off-topic, you are > >>>>> on-topic which implies you are not off-topic and based on the topic, > >>>>> you are > >>>>> off-topic. omg paradox .. *faints* > > >>>>> On 3 May 2010 02:14, Moh Ghooo <ghooo.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>>>>> When I studied SQL > >>>>>> I was using > >>>>>> Fundamentals of Database Systems, by Elmasry and Navathe > > >>>>>> but i dont know about unix :D > > >>>>>> Regards > >>>>>> Mohamed Sayed Ghoneim > >>>>>> 016-86-56-215 > > >>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >>>>>> From: Jaspreet Kaur <jaspreetkaur6...@gmail.com> > >>>>>> Date: Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:31 PM > >>>>>> Subject: [gcj] off topic. > >>>>>> To: google-code <google-code@googlegroups.com> > > >>>>>> Hi all,↲I know this is off topic but can someone please suggest ny > >>>>>> good books for learning sql and unix? > >>>>>> Thanks. > > >>>>>> -- > >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>>>>> Groups "google-codejam" group. > >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. > >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>>>>> google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>>>>http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > >>>>>> -- > >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>>>>> Groups "google-codejam" group. > >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. > >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>>>>> google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>>>>http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > >>>>> -- > >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>>>> Groups > >>>>> "google-codejam" group. > >>>>> To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. > >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>>>> google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>>>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>>>http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > >>>> -- > >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >>>> "google-codejam" group. > >>>> To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. > >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>>> google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>>http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >>> "google-codejam" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "google-codejam" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit this group > >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "google-codejam" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. 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