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CST334 Week 1 Journal Entry

 This first week of CST334 was definitely a challenge. This class is about operating systems and works with Linux and C. I am not familiar with either of these pieces of software so I had to spend some time getting familiar with them. There were many supplemental tutorials provided and I found myself going through the material multiple times. I feel like I am beginning to grasp some of the concepts for operating systems but still have a lot to learn.

This week I started to learn how to navigate in Linux and write code in C. I am finding that my experience with other languages such as Java is somewhat helping me to understand C. Many of the fundamental programming concepts are the same, like declaring variables or writing functions. I learned how to compile C code from the terminal and how to use tools like GDB to assist with code debugging. 

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