From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 10 20:32: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9606F15102 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 20:32:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.61]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with ESMTP id AAA5423; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 23:27:04 -0400 Message-ID: <370FEC97.13D31CD0@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 19:28:08 -0500 From: "Pedro Fernando Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [es] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: es,en-US,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Goddard Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A wee bit of advice References: <3.0.3.32.19990411005541.00977950@mailgate.ftech.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Goddard escribió: > > Specifically, I'd like to code in an area that interests me - such as FreeBSD > (system or applications - I'm flexible), where I've been a happy user for a > number of years but not exactly contributed much. I've read the relevant > section of the handbook, with the todo lists &c., but I'm still at a bit of > a loss for where to start - having trouble seeing the wood from the trees I > think... > The only thing I can say is.have fun. If it's not fun, it's probably not worth it anyway. Start by taking your preferred programming language and doing trivial things. Progressively you will find there are some things you have ALWAYS wanted to do and...BANG you're lost :-). > > Any tips (such as ideas for a project, anecdotes or pointers to some good > texts on systems programming)? > Everyone nowadays uses C or a C++ derived language (Java, Python...); somehow it's not important what you want to use as long as you solve your own requirements. I have tried to start learning Modula-3 (I was a good Pascal programmer once), but I always end up porting something in C that I need, or "suggesting" the features I want to see... That said, I unpacked my old 3D Studio to hopefully do some nice FreeBSD animated logos. Hope I didn't confuse you more, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message