Re: developing next windows versions
- From: Rob Wolfe <robert.wolfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:20:26 -0400
== Quote from TBone (reply2me@thenewsgroup)'s article
You would require training and experience in programming and most likely
a development certification like MCSD. Having said that, for OS level
programming, a computer science degree might be your best choice.
I would have to agree here. However, a light mix of real-world experience blended
slowly in with a pinch of that degree would work better *smiles*.
As for your question about knowing the source code. There are huge teams
of people developing windows. Each team works on different parts. So the
work an individual gets is just a module that is part of the greater
whole. Like an API or a DLL or something. For example, a firend of mine
worked for MS on his co-op term and he wrote what became the media
player for windows95. He never saw any other part of the code.
Now this is a cool tidbit :) I am in a similar situation. I have a friend that
was a developer on the Internet Explorer 5 team. He, too, never saw very much, if
any, of the entire Windows code (granted, seeing the ENTIRE slew of code that
makes up Windows as a whole I think would be interesting.
So unless you plan on being the next Linus Torvalds and writing an
entire operating system yourself, before you consider any type of
programming job, you'll need to work on the fundamental understanding of
how large software applications are developed.
Being a Linux fanatic myself (the news server I am posting this on is run in my
home using Linux) I have to say that even Linux as a whole isn't developed by
Linus alone -- there are tons of other contributors to the code that Linux implements.
.
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