...I would start to collaborate to a C/C++ project in order to improve my programming skill? Is it a bad idea? And, more important thing, can someone advise me a project where I could be helpful? (maybe not written in OOP like Code::Blocks, 'couse I don't know this programming paradigm).
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closed as not constructive by ChrisF♦ Dec 4 '11 at 18:32
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It's definitely not a bad idea to participate in a FOSS project. IMHO it's much more useful than working on your own pet projects or solving the exercises found in programming textbooks. That's because by participating in a FOSS project you'll have the chance to experience many great things (to name a few: VCS, communication, coding conventions, mentoring by good developers, etc.) that is not possible to experience when working on your own. "(maybe not written in OOP like Code::Blocks, 'couse I don't know this programming paradigm)." If a project claims that it uses C++ it will use OOP features. The only C++ paradigm which doesn't use all the OOP features is generic programming. Try not to think of C++ as a better C. I think it's better to see them as 2 completely different languages. As for where to find projects, you really have a plenty of choices. It's mostly a matter of preference. Examples: savannah, Debian teams |
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I did not collaborate any open source project yet. But someday one of my friends working on collaborate a google open source project tell me, when he commit his code, he find out this google guys review very carefully and when they reject his code, they give some very useful advice. So he got a lot of benefits. |
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It is not a bad idea. Start working on a free software project which you really like. See also this question (I'm tempted to invite you to collaborate on MELT, a high-level domain specific language to extend the GCC compiler; caveat: I am the main author of MELT) |
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If you haven't done any C or C++ programming I'm sure this would improve your programming skill (in general mastering multiple languages does). However I would try to decide if you want to learn C or C++ first - they're two very distinct languages, even though they share common history. C is comparatively easier to learn as it's a much simpler language - its vocabulary is compact, and it only supports a single paradigm (procedural programming). C++ is much more complicated in its entirety as it's a multi-paradigm language and has a lot more features than C, which means it will take you a lot longer to master it. |
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