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| EiriksUbuntu | Hello, I am a beginner when it comes to programming, but I'm willing to learn. Is there an offline/downloadable beginners guide available? | 12:08 |
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| sebbu | EiriksUbuntu, several exists in epub/pdf versions | 15:13 |
| sebbu | the dive into * serie for exemple | 15:13 |
| EiriksUbuntu | ? | 15:14 |
| sebbu | EiriksUbuntu, which language do you want to learn ? | 15:15 |
| EiriksUbuntu | I don't even know, I would like to be able to help fix bugs and such | 15:16 |
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| sebbu | http://www.examiner.com/article/10-free-bash-scripting-ebooks || http://www.noobslab.com/2014/05/two-free-ebooks-can-help-you-to-become.html <-- bash (command line stuff, init scrit, configuration script, packaging, etc...) | 15:25 |
| sebbu | http://www.onlineprogrammingbooks.com/cplusplus/ || http://cplus.about.com/od/freeebookscprogrammin1/ <-- C++ (programs, tools, etc...) | 15:26 |
| sebbu | EiriksUbuntu, did you study math / logic / algorithms at school/uni/whatever ? | 15:26 |
| EiriksUbuntu | I have studied math, and linguistics | 15:27 |
| sebbu | formal languages/grammars then ? | 15:27 |
| EiriksUbuntu | but nothing college level | 15:27 |
| EiriksUbuntu | yes | 15:27 |
| sebbu | otherwise, you can help with something else than programming too | 15:28 |
| sebbu | I know documentation isn't always as much maintained as the software itself | 15:28 |
| sebbu | translations aren't always done to all languages | 15:29 |
| sebbu | sometimes, API/tool/whatever documentation is there, but there's no quickstart/tutorial in it | 15:30 |
| EiriksUbuntu | I understand, but i think my heart is in wanting to help fix problems | 15:30 |
| sebbu | do you have a specific thing you want to help with ? | 15:34 |
| sebbu | also, you said "fix bugs and such" | 15:34 |
| sebbu | for open source software, you often have issue tracking software, either externally (bugzilla/others), either internally to the version control system (sourceforge, github, googlecode, etc...) | 15:35 |
| sebbu | there's known "issue" you can help with | 15:35 |
| sebbu | they don't all have big time requirement, sometimes it's just a matter of number and priorities | 15:36 |
| EiriksUbuntu | ok, so thats what I should be looking into right? Get familiar with the code, then i can help more. | 15:37 |
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