[Gllug] C/C++ mentor

[TreeBoy]

Hi trousers. (!)

The biggest issue that you will have is deciding which widget set or library 
to target.

I find KDE to be simplest because KDevelop makes developing Qt apps very 
simple, because the "Hello World" app always works on every distro. This is 
mostly geared towards C++ though.

The equivalent in Gnome is Anjuta, but the number of issues in getting simple 
apps even to compile (in Debian anyway) can be quite problematic. Sourceforge 
is chocka with queries about getting the "Hello World" sample to work! Using 
the C++ bindings with Gnome can be a little unusual.

Alternatively, there are just bog standard POSIX C or C++ apps using either X 
or Curses, but this may not necessarily be that advertisable in the job 
market...

So please identify your target first.

Then download one of the many books for your target environment.

You may detect a hint of bias in what I've written so far, and I'm about to 
reinforce that by suggesting you download one of the books from here:

http://www.phptr.com/promotions/promotion.asp?promo=1484&redir=1&rl=1

Note that there are many other free books here too!

Cheers,

On Monday 20 November 2006 21:26, Thomas Veness wrote:
> I really want to get involved in contributing to an open source project,
> although I have no real preference of which area I want to contribute to
> and have thusly concluded that the best way to get involved would be to
> have a mentor to help me along in whatever field their project is in, and I
> learn and follow and expand etc. Anything would be beneficial.
> Thanks.
> trousers
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