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Here is the book had had us use. Pay careful attention to the sed, awk, and perl sections. There's a ton you can do with perl, and Maynard is very specific on what he wants everyone to focus on. He'll give you a tiny packet on what you'll need to know. The low level C part is pretty crazy, but he'll give you enough rope to hang yourself.

You will be writing programs for the tests. It will range from writing a script, to writing a function, to writing an entire program. It's hard to describe Maynard, honestly. For instance, on one of my tests I switched my dup2() statements effectively switching input/output. He took off 10 points out of 25. On certain topics he'll want to make a point and be very heavy handed with the grading. The programs especially.

The good news is that all of the quizzes, programs, and tests really don't matter. The final does. I got an 82 on the first test, 42 on the second, and subpar on all the programs. Got an A in the class because I beasted the final. As long as you dedicate 50% of your time that semester to Systems, and the rest of the time for everything else, you'll do fine.

Those are weird and oddly specific specs (I'm doing a cs degree and I just generally know hardware)

At this point in time, I'd be surprised if any current laptop didnt have an ssd, and I'd recommend having access to at least 1 tb of storage (dont restrict yourself only to internal storage on the laptop)

As for ram, windows tends to run at the speed of smell on systems with less than about 12 GB (especially if you use chrome regularly). I'd reccomend 16 as it's the next standard ram spec up from 8 and it will make actually using the laptop a much smoother experience. In data analysis, you could probably squeak by with 8 GB if you're really tight on money, but I do not reccomend it as that specific type of work uses a ton of ram.

For cpu spec, be careful, for faster operation, make sure you find a cpu capable of hyper/multithreading, it's going to be useful for very intense single processes. As for core count, I cant really see needing more than 4 for for almost anything.

GPU doesn't really matter in this case (some people might disagree with that).


This LG gram meets all my recommendations for $1500 and is only 3 pounds so it'll be easy to walk around campus with.

If the goal is to make grandma happy, this is an easy solution. Just get all the colors. Haha

https://www.amazon.com/Graduation-Honor-Cords/dp/B00I5WWGF2

The apps are in Java, which I have programmed with in the past, but I have never tried to make an actual app. Java is a pretty easy language to learn. I taught myself in a few weeks with this book.

The Bible used by the US conference of Catholic Bishops is the New American Bible. You could probably borrow one from the library or a church, if they're nice they'll let you keep it. You can find it online as well LINK or if you have a kindle (not the same version but free).