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KDE Publishes a Book For Beginner Developers

Posted by timothy on from the boil-the-water-put-in-the-packet dept.

jrepin writes "During a recent 5 day sprint, four KDE contributors planned and produced a handbook for beginning KDE developers. The guide is recommended for every new contributor to KDE development. It outlines technical aspects of contributing to KDE and is a valuable first point of contact for new developers. The guide offers insights into KDE from the developer's point of view, and explains how to check out existing code, modify it and submit patches. Currently the guide only focuses on the coding aspects of KDE. Contributors are welcome (encouraged) to expand the guide to cover other aspects of the KDE Community as well as enhance the existing content in the book. We are currently working on how to release subsequent versions."

4 of 32 comments (clear)

  1. not for new devs by X0563511 · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is not for "beginner developers" - this is for beginner kde developers - eg, developers who have not worked with KDE before.

    Don't expect to learn from nothing, you should already know how to program before you tackle this.

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  2. nitty gritty by Anomalyst · · Score: 4, Informative

    89 Pages $10, seems a bit pricey. Heres the PDF URL: http://en.flossmanuals.net/_booki/kde-guide/kde-guide.pdf

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  3. Way to bury the link by dmearns · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nice how they include the link for the "dead tree" version but the online version is much harder to find. Here it is http://en.flossmanuals.net/kde-guide/

  4. How about a decent book on the API first? by Viol8 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Instead of the utterly utterly hopeless api.kde.org