Re: [gnome-love] Hi everybody

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 19:03:32 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch <lists lambda1 be> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been following GNOME development for quite some time now, and I'm
> fascinated by the magic performed here. In a month I'm starting my
> university studies (informatics) and in my spare time I'd like to help
> out with GNOME development. I'm a programmer, over the past years, I've
> used stuff like JS, Java, PHP (I started out as a web developer).

If you're a web developer, the Gnome Web Hackers could probably put
you to work.  See http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gwh/.

> But as
> you can see from the list, none of those languages has the harsh demands
> of memory management like C. I've been doing reading on C, but it's
> quite hard to get started. Anyone has ideas / suggestions on where to
> start, preferably something easy to spice up my C knowledge? I really
> love programming, so it seems like the most obvious thing for me to do,
> once I get over the hard part: mastering C (without making a program
> that leaks memory from all sides ;))

Maybe someone else here does, I'd just google on "C tutorial".  Sorry
I'm not any more helpful, but I didn't learn C until after having
learned Pascal and some x86 assembly so whatever I used to learn C
probably wouldn't be useful to you.  However, let me just point out
that valgrind rocks for handling memory issues.  There's a quick HOWTO
on using it that I put in my tutorial at
http://www.gnome.org/~newren/tutorials/developing-with-gnome/html/ch03s03.html

Elijah