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Top Forums Programming school or teach myself? Post 44515 by mbb on Monday 8th of December 2003 07:37:55 AM
Old 12-08-2003
A structured course may be better for you if you are a beginner at programming.

As well as useful exercises and a set place and time to do programming without interruptions you will have access to someone (your teacher) who should be able to help you when you get stuck. Even having fellow students around to dicuss problems and solutions would be of benefit.

A course allows you an environment in which to experiment and screw up. A luxury you won't have if you are trying to learn on the job.

Reading on anything to do with computing will always be an integral part of your job, whatever your experience. If you are a beginner, better get into the habit now.

A course is always a good reference point, but they can be expensive and time consuming. If you are experienced or have a good talent at programming you may be more comfortable learning on your own at your own pace. If you do this, make sure you have access to someone who can mentor you, just in case you get stuck.

Finally, remember the old saying 'practice makes perfect'.

MBB
 

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stopped(7)						 Miscellaneous Information Manual						stopped(7)

NAME
stopped - event signalling that a job has stopped SYNOPSIS
stopped JOB=JOB INSTANCE=INSTANCE RESULT=RESULT [PROCESS=PROCESS] [EXIT_STATUS=STATUS] [EXIT_SIGNAL=SIGNAL] [ENV]... DESCRIPTION
The stopped event is generated by the Upstart init(8) daemon when an instance of a job has stopped. The JOB environment variable contains the job name, and the INSTANCE environment variable contains the instance name which will be empty for single-instance jobs. If the job was stopped normally, the RESULT environment variable will be ok, otherwise if the job was stopped because it has failed it will be failed. When the job has failed, the process that failed will be given in the PROCESS environment variable. This may be pre-start, post-start, main, pre-stop or post-stop; it may also be the special value respawn to indicate that the job was stopped because it hit the respawn limit. Finally in the case of a failed job, one of either EXIT_STATUS or EXIT_SIGNAL may be given to indicate the cause of the stop. Either EXIT_STATUS will contain the exit status code of the process, or EXIT_SIGNAL will contain the name of the signal that the process received. The normal exit job configuration stanza can be used to prevent particular exit status values or signals resulting in a failed job, see init(5) for more information. If neither EXIT_STATUS or EXIT_SIGNAL is given for a failed process, it is because the process failed to spawn (for example, file not found). See the system logs for the error. init(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with other activity. It is typically combined with the starting(7) event by services when inserting themselves as a dependency. Job configuration files may use the export stanza to export environment variables from their own environment into the stopped event. See init(5) for more details. EXAMPLE
A service that wishes to be running whenever another service would be running, started before and stopped after it, might use: start on starting apache stop on stopped apache A task that must be run after another task or service has been stopped might use: start on stopped postgresql SEE ALSO
starting(7) started(7) stopping(7) init(5) Upstart 2009-07-09 stopped(7)
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