Day 16. Putting It Together (Part I)
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
—Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
There is no single organizing topic today, and there will be no exercises at the end. Instead we'll work through two real-world projects together: one of them fun, the other more serious.
The fun project will help you cheat on a word puzzle from your newspaper. The serious project does some important Unix system administration work.
Anybody mind if we start with the fun one?
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