Re: Advancing from Unix Sysadmin to Programmer
From: Otto Wyss (otto.wyss_at_orpatec.ch)
Date: 05/20/04
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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 22:24:58 +0200
Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2004, Otto Wyss wrote:
>
> > While there is no substitute for experience, experience can be aquired
> > through hard work. IMO the best way to aquire experience without being
> > fired by the boss is to participate in any OpenSource project. I'd
> > choose a medium size project since it probably is easier to look
> > through. The advantage of OpenSource project is your code is viewed by
> > others and if you make errors they will immediately be critisiced. And
> > the most important reason if you make valuable contributions any other
> > error will be forgiven.
>
> That is some good advice, but beware the flip-side: not all open source
> code necessarily follows good programming techniques and some have
> arguably horrible code layout standards.
True! Just because of that I've created wxGuide
("http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/") which might help in improving it.
O. Wyss
-- See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/"
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