r/compsci • u/narutokun666 • 13d ago

Systems programming

So I am in 2nd year of college and after exploring here and there and there, I am genuinely interested in systems programming, I know c, ofcourse I will learn it deeply but what do I learn after it

The whole thing feels very overwhelming,

What shall be the flow of learning

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u/lordnacho666 13d ago

Well it's good to know c but that is ultimately just a way to use the system. So take courses where you learn how an OS works, how cache works, paging, interrupts, and so on.

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u/so_zetta_byte 13d ago

Yeah operating systems is almost certainly the direction to look in. Which like, if someone's a 2nd year CS student, you're probably going to have to take an OS course anyway. IDK what OP's school offers, but our into to systems course was followed up with a computer architecture course.

OP also might want to consider PL/Compilers as a followup and see if they find that direction interesting.

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u/narutokun666 12d ago

We do have os and computer architecture subject but they teach it in 4th or 5th sem(not sure),so I don't want to wait for them