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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."

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  1. Excellent initiative ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Large frameworks can be daunting, this is a great way to start !

  2. 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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  3. 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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    1. Re:nitty gritty by Builder · · Score: 2

      I pay for value not length.

      I'd happily pay twice as much for a new copy of the "C Programming Language " than I would for any of those "Learn C in 24 days" books despite it being half to a quarter of the length of those books.

  4. 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/

    1. Re:Way to bury the link by dotancohen · · Score: 2

      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/

      Nice, thanks. Here is a direct link to the PDF:
      en.flossmanuals.net/_booki/kde-guide/kde-guide.pdf

      And EPUB:
      en.flossmanuals.net/_booki/kde-guide/kde-guide.epub

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

    Instead of the utterly utterly hopeless api.kde.org

  6. Feedback Welcome by rohangarg · · Score: 2

    Hi I'm Rohan Garg, one of the authors of the book. I'd like to mention that we would love feedback from people who are reading the book. How can we improve it? Don't like the artwork? Show us some awesome artwork and we'll ship it. Tell us what needs fixing and we'll work something out.

    1. Re:Feedback Welcome by rohangarg · · Score: 2

      Hi gbjbaanb We used the Booki platform which does all the heavy lifting of generating the PDF/ePub/publishing to lulu. It's quite easy to use although we found the editor to be a bit quirky and requested that the developers improve it. You can create revisions of manual just like you would in real books, you can clone existing manuals and work on them although I've been told that a way to merge changes back into a manual is coming soon ( Just like you fork code, make changes and merge it back together ). You can do all of the above and more here : http://booki.flossmanuals.net/