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

[James McKenzie]

jingo811 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.  Anyways I was suprised at how thin it was for a programming book I thought it would be thick like 3 bibles or something :-)
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USD 97?  That is way too much for this book.  I paid something like USD 
10 for my first copy and NOTHING for my second (it was being thrown away 
by a retiring programmer and I rescued it).  If you were/are in the 
United States I would have mailed it to you for the cost of postage and 
handling (something like USD 2 or so.)
> 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.
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This book is "THE GUIDE" to programming in c.  These two gentlemen 
created it.  So, what you have to do is find a copy of "The 'c' Puzzle 
Book' and work through the puzzles.  Then you will be ready for 
programming in 'c'.
> 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?
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See my comment above.  You need to know how to use ANSI C in order to 
program for this project.  Also look for a best practices guide as well.
> Or is it really doable to have Wine project as a newbies first open-source project?
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It is definitely doable.  You can start with something small, or pick up 
a fix that was abandoned  (like I did) and clean it up for inclusion 
into the project.

James McKenzie