A beginning programmer

[Steven Sroka]

>On 11 July 2011 14:26, Eric Griffith <egriffith92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick responses guys, and now I have a stupid question
> haha, I didn't even really think of this until this moment, but whats
> the guideline for replying to an email listing, on here, with multiple
> people in the conversation? Reply-All or just emailing back directly
> to kde at mail.kde.org? All my emails before this had just been me and
> other person so I didn't even think about it but this just came up on
> the python list as well.

Reply-All is good so you don't start a new thread. (I think sending to
kde at mail.kde.org separately will always start a new thread? I dunno)

>
> Back on track, though, I'll be checking out various bug trackers, the
> junior jobs; one of the python devs said to just start small and start
> writing scripts for things I do all the time. Off the top of my head
> was post-install scripts for Ubuntu / Fedora / Arch, but to do it in a
> different language than just bash. Like with Python + system calls to
> Bash for package management.

If you are interesting in minor bug fixing to get your feet wet, then
bugs.kde.org has a link on the left to all the Junior Jobs.

Also, ever heard of OpenHatch? :)
This is how I started out - openhatch.org

Essentially, they find "bite-sized" bugs and post them freely so new
developers can learn how to get involved in a larger product, eg. KDE

They also have mentors and guides to using version control systems.

>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:57 AM, John Woodhouse <a_johnlonger at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> From: Eric <egriffith92 at gmail.com>
>>
>> To: kde at mail.kde.org
>> Sent: Sunday, 10 July 2011, 23:13
>> Subject: [kde] A beginning programmer
>>
>>  I'll sometimes be roaming linuxhomepage.com / lxer / phoronix and
>> see some new patch mentioned, and out of curiosity I'll click on it
>> and read it, and
>> I have to say.. alot of the time it looks like gibberish to me. Even
>> with comments,
>> I can't make sense of it. Perhaps im simply unlucky and choosing the
>> more... low-level
>> patchs to look at, but I got to say, its rather disheartening when I
>> can't even make sense
>> of what is going on.
>>
>> I know this isn't strictly limited to KDE but I'm sure that my situation is
>> hardly new to programmer's the world over.
>>
>> Any feedback is much appreciated!
>>
>> -Eric-
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>> I have been writing software for rather a long time and can understand the
>> problems you are having. Documentation these days often isn't an easy route
>> to understanding. If there are any true detailed overviews of functionality
>> at the code level anywhere I'm sure it would be of great interest to many.
>>
>> The suggestion of dreaming up something you want to do yourself is an
>> excellent one. It can get people flying very quickly. To that end you might
>> want to take a look at qt_creater. It's free and rather capable. It does
>> have it's foibles - think carefully about naming when the graphics are
>> specified as changing them later there seems to mess it up. It also changes
>> rapidly - eg a call that Kevin mentioned to me no longer exists.  The
>> programs it produces will run on KDE4.....
>>
>> As to using it there are many examples which is good as some aspects aren't
>> all that intuitive.
>>
>> I have no idea how this post will turn out as yahoo mail now seems to assume
>> top posting. I don't post often but it may turn out that Duncan may have to
>> put up with me top posting if this one doesn't work correctly.
>>
>> John
>>
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