[nflug] Question for all you programmers

[Mark Musone]

The best way, in my opinion is to just become involved in an opensource
project.

Pick a project that you like or want to learn more about.

Join the mailing lists, all of them. Especially the developers mailing list.
Then look at the code as much as possible.
Then implement either something that you want the application to do, or just
pick something from their list of todo items.


It really is as straightforward as that. Just dive right in, but don't do
things over your head. Heck a lot of people start out just by being the
"documentation" guy and helping maintain the developer docs, until they feel
comfortable to actually do some coding.

P.S. if you would like some coding projects, opensource or proprietary,
please let me know, I can give you the list of projects that I head up that
severely needs help!!

-Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Ryan Slomiany
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 11:50 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: [nflug] Question for all you programmers

I started using Linux and joined this group not too
long ago because I wanted to expand my horizons, so to
say, and be a part of this open source community that
really has made computing what it is today.

With that said, I know a few programming
languages(c++, python and php) but i'm definitely no
expert with any particular one. Where would be a good
place to start problem solving? I'm familiar with the
structures, syntax, etc with the languages i know, but
i feel that i won't even begin to know what that stuff
is capable of until I start solving simple problems
and work my way up. and, then, really start
customizing my distro :)

thanks for any help anyone can provide.

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