Minimal skills

[Brandon helsley]

>Writing good documentation is both an art and a science.    But, the  
 
author must first understand the language of the subject.    The common  
 
language of FreeBSD and CS/E is C.
 

 

 
>The canonical C book is:
 

 
  >https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Kernighan-C-Programming-Language-2nd-Edition/PGM54487.html
 

 

 
>Once you can read C, then you will be able to read the canonical FreeBSD  
 
book:
 

 
  >https://www.pearson.com/store/p/design-and-implementation-of-the-freebsd-operating-system-the/P100001308622
 

   
The link you sent me for the c programming language is from 1988. Wouldn't it be better to use a newer study book? Should I look for something newer?
 

 
 
 
 
 
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> On Jun 4, 2020 at 2:53 PM, David Christensen  <dpchrist at holgerdanske.com>  wrote:
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>  On 2020-06-04 01:14, Brandon helsley wrote:  >  I started using FreeBSD about 2 months ago and have purchased books like absolute freebsd and have learned a lot.  >  I can set up a desktop environment that has all the programs I need, so that's not the problem. It's that I want to progress past simple editing of configuration files and minor system administration tasks like the crontab. I want to try and stick with FreeBSD as my main and probably mostly only OS. Meaning, I would like to skip the ubuntu step. It seems as though the FreeBSD docs is the way to go. Just read it over a few times, as well as the porters handbook. I'll get straight to it so I can contribute to ports and docs, even if it takes a couple years!!! Writing good documentation is both an art and a science. But, the author must first understand the language of the subject. The common language of FreeBSD and CS/E is C. The canonical C book is:  https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Kernighan-C-Progr
amming-Language-2nd-Edition/PGM54487.html  Once you can read C, then you will be able to read the canonical FreeBSD book:  https://www.pearson.com/store/p/design-and-implementation-of-the-freebsd-operating-system-the/P100001308622  David _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  mailing list  https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions  To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org" 
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