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Comment by rubiquity

Self taught programmer here.

This thread will eventually have 500 replies all telling you to learn linked lists and various sorting algorithms. Maybe you can do that, but only after you've learned about operating system fundamentals such as processes, threads and, in my opinion, pipes and the socket APIs.

You'll likely never have to implement a linked list in C in the real world, but I promise you there will be many times that your web server is erroring on connect(2).

Any company that puts a bigger emphasis on linked lists and sorting algorithms in the hiring process than on OS and networking fundamentals is a good sign to start running away.

parent rubiquity 12 years ago

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