[aclug-L] Re: Linux open source projects

[Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I was just at sams club and they have a book "Linux Programming"  This is a
$26.00 book which is about 3 inches thick.  They also have about 6 other linux
titles!  THey have 2 different types of linux-- red hat and candl..  This makes
my heart joyous, alas absolutely no applications.  Not one of the games or 
others
were for linux!

Michael

Tom Hull wrote:

> Jon's general advice below is good, but the projects he mentions may not
> be the best. There is a huge amount of work that needs to be done based
> on GTK+, particularly in the Gnome project. I imagine you could build a
> whole career just in that nook. Take a good look at:
>
>   http://developer.gnome.org/
>
> Starting with "Getting Involved". You may want to start out by following
> a small area, such as games or even screen savers. (Awesome screensavers
> under Gnome, including at least one which hangs my system.) Sign up for
> a mailing list or two, and just lurk to try to get a feel for what's
> going on, who's doin what, etc. (You may find people on the list who're
> quite happy to help you, but most folks on these lists are very busy,
> up to their necks in mail as it is, and are only concerned with getting
> their work done. If you jump in as an "absolute beginner", someone's
> going to more/less rudely tell you to go do your homework first.) Try
> to reproduce problems as they are reported, and debug them. (Learn the
> debugging tools well.)
>
> Jonathan Hall wrote:
> >
> > I'd say that in my experience, the best way to get started is by writing
> > your own program.  Just create your own one-man project to get started.
> > Perhaps reinvent the wheel--write an IRC client or an e-mail program or
> > something fairly simple.  Then... start by adding your own features to an
> > existing program.  Add color to ircII or add random signature support to
> > pine, etc.
> >
> > Once you've done that sort of stuff for a while, you'll have a better feel
> > for what's involved in programming an entire project, and what it's like to
> > work with other people's source code.  Then, find a project you're
> > interested in helping with, and join their development team.
> >
> > That's my 2 cents...
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 05:44:11PM -0600, Patrick R. Klee wrote:
> > > Hello fellow ACLUG members,
> > >     I am currently learning C and C++, along with GTK+ (Gimp Toolkit).
> > > I was wondering, where I can find a project to join, and get recognized
> > > as a Linux programmer.  I checked out http://www.linuxlinks.com and all
> > > of the sites were for advanced level programmers.  I have a basic
> > > knowledge of C++, but want to learn C.  I am getting some books for
> > > Christmas, hopefully this will help a lot.  But, I feel if I look at
> > > some code, I can learn from the code, if of course, they use heavy
> > > commenting.  :-)
> > >
> > > Patrick
> > >
>
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