[Wine] How should I educate myself in order to code for WineHQ?

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Sat Mar 29 10:45:23 CDT 2008


On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:35 AM, jingo811 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> So now I have bought the K & R book it was expensive around  97$ US but that's because I was too impatient to order it through Amazon for half the price.

Amazon has them used for $20 including shipping.  That's what I would have
paid, $97 is too much.

>  So skimming through the Contents page and the various pages.  I realize that maybe this isn't the right strategy after all if I want to become a newbie Wine coder some day.
>
>  Do you guys recommend that a person with no previous C experience should first spend some time on smaller C related open-source projects elsewhere, as a first project before jumping on the Wine project?

Just start programming.  You can only learn by doing.

>  Or is it really doable to have Wine project as a newbies first open-source project?

Perhaps not for you.
- Dan



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