me too, i've taken a c++ class (2 summers ago) and am in university now, taking another one. i'd really like to help, but all of my programming experience combined still does not permit me to understand the sources very well - or feel confident that i'd do it 'right'. are there some more basic tasks that you could say, 'newbies do these ones'? -jared On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 08:59, Mark Douglas wrote: > > I am an experienced C++ programmer. But I don't know squat about Be > > programming. So I ordered "Programming the Be Operating System" from > > Amazon. > > I hope to be contributing soon. > > I'm an inexperienced C++ programmer who knows next to squat all about > programming in general (what I do know is self-taught). I'd like to contribute > but (apart from some _limited_ webmonkey skills, if you're after them) can't. > What I would like to know is, is there a guide or something about that > explains > how to go about programming the BeOS? Being able to do the basics comes before > reimplementing the API, after all! > > I found a couple of guides on the internet but they were aimed at experienced > programmers, apart from creating a window I couldn't go any further - the > BView > class is the stumbling block here... > > Cheers (and sorry for the OT nature of this!), > > -Mark > > ===== > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com >