Learning systems programming with Rust

Re:Learning systems programming with Rust by yoklov on Monday September 12, 2016 @10:32AM (#12479966)

Those "UNIX BASICS + ASSEMBLY" courses are where I'd expect it in that list... Not sure how you could cover those without at least mentioning them.

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Re:Learning systems programming with Rust by untothebreach on Monday September 12, 2016 @10:41AM (#12480042)

I can't speak for jvns, but for my degree, "UNIX BASICS" was essentially "Command-line basics" (an intro class), and Assembly was pretty much just the actual language syntax, registers, pointers, and interrupts. The word "syscall" might have been mentioned once or twice, but only in a hand-wavy, "don't worry about this right now" kind of way.

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Re:Learning systems programming with Rust by iamcreasy on Saturday September 17, 2016 @11:30PM (#12523805)

In my assembly course we wrote intel 3/4/586 assembly. It was all about Syntax and Registers. Why pointers will be there in an Assembly course?

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Re:Learning systems programming with Rust by untothebreach on Thursday September 22, 2016 @12:57PM (#12558236)

mainly just, "how to deference the address you just got to get the value you want." Might be covered under the "syntax" heading as well, but the concept was still gone over for those that hadn't quite grokked it yet.

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