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by michaeljx 719 days ago
Same here. After doing Java the entire first year, the second year we did a 6-hour course for C, and then had to write a ram-disk for a toy Linux operating system. We had to write the code, compile, boot in the new system, run a specific test suite, and repeat till the test passed. I am still not sure how we got the tests to pass, but I remember praying to the computer gods at one point, as well as a bunch of boot&hope development.