ProgrammingLanguages
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[edit] Programming Languages
If you are interested in programming, welcome aboard! There is a lot of FOSS projects to contribute!
[edit] How to become a successful FOSS programmer?
>Learn by doing
- get source code of project
- perform iterative development to understand underlying design goals
- Fix bugs
>Perfect your skills
- Iterative development and bug fixing will render to your understanding the project of choice
- It will strengthen your understanding of language platform in use
>Participate
- talk to other programmers
- work with other programmers
>Learn best practices
- Study open programming standards
- Standardize your programming styles
- Systematically understand design/ implementation guides
[edit] What are some of the popular programming languages used in FOSS projects?
- http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Open_Source/ - http://www.oreilly.com/news/graphics/prog_lang_poster.pdf
[edit] How to contribute?
- http://sourceforge.net - http://launchpad.net - https://fedorahosted.org/web/ - http://freshmeat.net
What else are you waiting for, get involved!
Write to us at LC-IN mailing list if you have specific concerns and questions. There are always others in the list who can help you.
Reference
Nice article for a open source new comer, http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/newto/
