[ale] [90dw-lcthw] Updated the README file

[Horkan Smith]

I can help answer occasional questions or provide some direction, but I sorry to say I have too many things already on my plate to be a true mentor.  Maybe if there are a few others who also have the knowledge but not the time, we can share the effort and not hold you back.

I originally learned C in classes at Tech in '87 or so and have used it most of my career; but the last 5-10 years I've been in more of a lead / architect role, so I'm pretty rusty and may be out-of-date with newer approaches.

FWIW, my first languages were Apple Basic and Pascal, then C.  I've always found my best asset to be an understanding of how the code is actually executed by the machine - how do the stack and heap work, how arguments are passed during function calls, etc; but in turn I sometimes have trouble with higher level languages until I can figure out how they actually implement a feature I'm not familiar with.

later!
   horkan

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 06:57:03AM -0500, Leam Hall wrote:
> I've updated the README with a "How to join" section and some other
> minor notes. If you are interested in participating, please give it
> a look and follow through. If you are an organizer type person, let
> me know how to improve the project.
> 
> We're still looking for a Sage in Residence (SiR) to help if we get
> stuck. I will warn new C programmers, if you go to the C channel on
> Freenode you get bashed if you think anything but K&R C and the
> attendant book. You have to develop a bit of a emotional
> disengagement.
> 
> Note the [90dw-lcthw] in the subject line. ALE is looking at
> different mentoring groups and this might be one way to use the
> single mailing list yet keeping things sortable. Let me know if
> there's a better way.
> 
> Leam
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