Is it possible to learn a good amount about UNIX programming in 5 months?

[SilentZero]

Doing my Masters in CS and have a class in the spring that is supposedly pretty unix heavy, yet the last time I did unix was 3 years ago in a undergrad class and don't remember much at all (basic assembler design, etc).

On a related note (same class), I need to have experience with MIPS (assembly), however when I took the undergrad assembly class 3 years ago (at a diff. univ.) it was all MASM intel x86 architechure, so as far as MIPS goes I know nothing about it.

Is there hope for me, or am I in hot water?

 

[phaxmohdem]

What are you doing wasting time here in forums for!

IF you're that worried about it, I'd head down to your local book seller, and find the best Unix/Programming book that pertains to your area, and hide away for a week or two. 5 months should be more than adequate to at least be prepared for whats thrown at you I would think. Unless you don't know how to read

 

[Crescent13]

I learned all of the C++ I know (which is surprisingly quite a bit) from C++ for Dummies. Maybe the Dummies books have a Unix book too.

 

[Nothinman]

Get yourself a copy of Linux and install that, you can even use VMWare if you don't want to deal with dual-booting. Unless you know that the school will be using something else like Solaris for the class, if so get a copy of that =)

If you already know C you should be fine, there will be differences in style, philosophy and some lower level functions but the C language itself is largely the same no matter what OS you're using it on.