Re: looking for books... still

hello laura,
I have a pretty good understanding on lists and queues and such. My goal now is to learn more about the inner workings; perhaps by testing a os and making changes as I learn more to speed it up and improving performance. If I can find the books, it would give me a nice introduction and show me what I don't know so I can learn that, and teach me along the way. 

Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield

On Nov 2, 2009, at 5:13 PM, qubit wrote:


Hi Ty --
Perhaps you could check what textbooks are currently used at your local 
college or university for a class on these subjects.
But before tackling subjects of this magnitude you should really have a very good understanding of data structures and objects -- what they are and how 
to implement them in your favorite language.
I think you already have some exposure to different types of languages from the various projects you have tinkered on, and looking at the fruit basket 
samples.
But when you get into OS and compiler construction, you really need a good 
grounding of experience with the basics.
The only thing about this that has changed since I was in school in the 80s is that OO programming has emerged in a big way. But when you are talking about actually writing a little operating system, you are talking about low level details and data manipulation below the level of objects. Hence the old fashioned constructs like stacks and queues and locks are important. 
Sorry I'm not much more help.
You probably noticed on program-l the note that safari books have suddenly become inaccessible to persons using screen readers. And they don't sound promising about fixing it. Perhaps you should join in the protest to get a 
blind friendly site back.
Happy hacking.
--le




----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 5:42 PM
Subject: looking for books... still


Hello,
Previously I wrote in asking about some books on OS and compiler
design; I still have yet to find anything. I did a bit of searching on
bookshare but didn't find anything; I would just pay the $50 for the
subscription for those. Is there any other way I could find what I
need? Help would really be appriciated.

Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield

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