easy intro programming exercise?

[Henry Miller]

On Thursday 18 March 2004 19:22, hoopes wrote:
> Hello folks,
> This is my first mail to any mailing list of all time, so, uh,
> congratulations to all of us.
>
> Anyway, I seem to understand that (one of the aims of) the KDE Quality
> team is to help programmers who want to get involved in the cause. So,
> I'd like to test the waters, and thought this question might be
> applicable to others who haven't really contributed to anything like
> this before. The question is: Is there some page or howto or manual or
> something that gives a basic, feet-wetting type of programming
> experience, hopefully using as much variety in kde and qt calls as
> possible (and still, somehow, be rather basic ).

Not that I know of.  However there is a lot of information linked from 
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/  Any of that might help.
In particular note 
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/books/kde-2.0-development/index.html
which is for kde 2.0, but has a lot of information that might be useful.

Personally I find the best thing is to start reading code.   When you get 
into actual writing you will have a good idea of what kde can do.  When 
ever you think "This must have been done before" that is a sign that you 
need to look for or ask about something in the libraries that does it.   
If you don't find it in the libraries, but find it elsewhere, make a 
library to do it.   (or ask someone else why there isn't one)

If you have questions ask.   I learn best by finding the answers to 
questions.

-- 
Henry Miller hank at black-hole.com