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 :-)
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.
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?
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?
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
