[CT2] {Week 7}

First assignment... phew!

I think I can end with the picture above...

But I won't! Let's capture our last night's lecture very quick.

We had a couple of minutes of an actual lecture about how Unix works, how the prompt that we use to complite C or cd, ls, mkdir and so on... is just a program that uses fork()... I don't know guys, my head melts even when I write about it...

So I guess a right thing to do would be checking all the youtube (I mean all of it!) in search for some answers. Search for:

- how does Unix work

- what is Unix prompt

- what is Unix shell

- what is bash

- what is fork() (what the fork is fork()??!!)

- how parent and child processes work

etc... 

I'm actually very excited about it as it means a lot of time on an Orbitrack youtubing sh*t...

And the assignment! It was very simple / very hard depending on how comfortable you feel with C, pointers, stacks data types and reading compilation warnings and errors. So basically if you pretty much get it, fixing the problems would take you maybe 10 minutes - otherwise you might be looking at it for hours and you still wouldn't have a clue. Ironic? Well, it's Denis after all!

I'll try to go through it this weekend in one of my super duper videos and hopefully, if you still have any doubts, it will help you understand it. I mean it is all very complex... And my advise would be - take it small step at the time and at some point you'll see that it's not that scary after all!

For now, check what kind of answers I gave in a link below. I'm not that proud of them, you could answer them better, but I hope I captured the essence of the problem. The last answer is very vague as I was writing through Denis' requests to save the files and submit them.

Assignment 1 Done

Happy Halloween btw!