[haiku-development] Re: Newbie programmer, want to help

  • From: Nicholas Otley <nicholasotley@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 22:00:14 +0000

Hi Jonathan,

May I suggest the book "Accelerated C++"

There is no better book to learn C++ Application development skills IMNSHO.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Accelerated-Practical-Programming-Example-Depth/dp/020170353X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267826316&sr=8-1

http://www.acceleratedcpp.com/

Cheers,
Nik

On 4 March 2010 15:00, Jonathan Beatty <easyegoism@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a little bit of experience with programming (mostly Java), and I
> have enough C++ experience to construct simple programs. I can do file I/O,
> pointers, arrays, functions, all the stuff usually taught in online
> tutorials, but I don't have any real world programming experience with it. I
> also have a little bit of experience with Qt, but I don't know how much that
> matters.
>
> However, I find myself with inordinately large amounts of free time, and I
> want to use them for something that will actually help me learn to program
> better. As for the areas I'd be interested in, I'd like to see MAC spoofing
> implemented in Haiku (and, if directed to the right sources, wouldn't mind
> implementing it myself) because it's the only way I can connect my laptop to
> my home network. Wifi won't work with my card anyway (couldn't get it to
> work in FreeBSD; BCM43xx sucks). Barring that, I guess I could do simple
> applications development if there are any things obviously missing in Haiku.
>
> However, I do have years of Linux/BSD experience, and if I could be better
> put to use as a tester, let me know.
>

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