Ask Slashdot: Best Programs To Learn From?

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 8, 2011 @03:47AM from the besides-aa-of-course dept.

First time accepted submitter camServo writes "I took C++ classes in college and I have played around with some scripting languages. We learned the basics of how to make C++ work with small programs, but when I see large open source projects, I never know where to even start to try and figure out how their code works. I'm wondering if any of you have suggestions for some nice open source projects to look at to get an idea for how programming works in the real world, so I can start giving back to the FOSS community." Where would you start?

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Re:The kernel by kthreadd · 2011-09-08 03:52 · Score: 5, Insightful

Off you go
Oh yeah, Good ol' BSD kernel. The best one in town.
Really good question. by Georules · 2011-09-08 03:53 · Score: 5, Insightful

I have often wondered the same thing. People tell me, "read the code and submit patches!" It may sound like hand-holding to experienced developers, but many new coders could really use an introduction to becoming a part of a community around a project.