I've only done 6502 ASM & whatever Macromedia/Adobe Director uses, but if I where to contribute my $0.02...
Program something not retarded. Sure everyone starts out w/ a few little trinket programs (I recall my first 6502 ASM program cycling the BG color register on an atari 8-bit (emulated) from #$00-#$FF), but once you really dig yourself into a hole w/ an intention to get out of it, you have only scraped the barrel. Try, for example, programming something that inputs a complex file-format & outputs per it's standards. You don't even have to publish, chances are at this stage there's a better FLOSS alternative, but that's not the point.
Or, alternatively, you can do what everyone else does & start out w/ their token patches & tweaks (sometimes just for linux-main, etc street-cred:P)
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I've only done 6502 ASM & whatever Macromedia/Adobe Director uses, but if I where to contribute my $0.02... Program something not retarded. Sure everyone starts out w/ a few little trinket programs (I recall my first 6502 ASM program cycling the BG color register on an atari 8-bit (emulated) from #$00-#$FF), but once you really dig yourself into a hole w/ an intention to get out of it, you have only scraped the barrel. Try, for example, programming something that inputs a complex file-format & outputs per it's standards. You don't even have to publish, chances are at this stage there's a better FLOSS alternative, but that's not the point. Or, alternatively, you can do what everyone else does & start out w/ their token patches & tweaks (sometimes just for linux-main, etc street-cred :P)