easy intro programming exercise?

[Michael Pyne]

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On Thursday 18 March 2004 20:22, hoopes wrote:
> Hello folks,
> This is my first mail to any mailing list of all time, so, uh,
> congratulations to all of us.

Welcome!

> 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 ).

What I started out with was writing panel applets, as they're not generally 
too deep in the Qt/KDE magic, and they're practically simple by definition.  
KDevelop has a template for building the applets, which I'd recommend taking 
advantage of.

If you decide to go further in KDE programming, I would recommend getting to 
know the autotools (automake, autoconf, etc.), and get to know Qt Designer as 
well.

I would recommend reading some of the mailing list archives, especially 
kde-devel.  Often times a question will get answered with a real jewel.  In 
fact, it would be an interesting project to go through the archives and 
compile a list of all the fantastic advice given on the various mailing 
lists.  Of course, I have no time to do so at this point, but it would still 
be a great thing, I think.

> I love KDE and use it pretty much 100% of my computing time, so I'd be
> pretty pumped if I could help out at all.

There's also some projects for the KDE Quality project which are not too 
involved, and make good starter projects.  See the wiki 
(http://wiki.kdenews.org/) and the Quality homepage (http://quality.kde.org/) 
for more details.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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