Beginner Programing

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I tried to do something similar to this last year.

http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=431

I got a lot of interest from people wanting to learn programming in C, but I couldn't get any mentors.  I even had some discussions with some groups that might of been interested in helping, but it never got anywhere.  It just seemed that programmers didn't feel they could spare the time to help out.

I wish you guys good luck with this, and I hope you will have more success than I did.

Working with someone else on your first project is an excellent way to learn, you really do benefit from it.  I've learnt a hell of a lot working with someone, and have got much further than I ever would by myself (if not just from the extra encouragement).

My final words of experience are - Learn the basics and learn them well It's very easy to get carried away and start to run before you can walk, and skip stuff you don't think is necessary.

Good Luck guys, and happy coding :-D

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smithy wrote:
As for mentors, I'm not sure they are needed either.  There is no point in people writing C++ tutorials when there are hundreds of excellent textbooks that do the same thing.

Mentors really would be there for guidance and helping with problems more than writing tutorials I'd think.  Books are good, but being able to talk to a real-life person about the specific problem you are having, is much better.

For Amiga programming, the ROM Kernel Manuals and tonnes of examples and articles on the Amiga developer CD 2.1 is more than enough too.

the Dev CD is a good source of info, however the quality and quantity of information (particularly more recent stuff) varies quite considerably.

Also AmigaGuide is not the ideal format for the RKMs.  The RKMs are an amazing source of info, The Amiga "Bible" almost, but they're best in hardcopy (which is unfortunately difficult to find), and this electronic version seriously hinders usefulness IMO.

There are the "Developers" forums here on amiga.org that new developers can use to ask questions.  I will pay more attention to these in future and help where I can.

Thats good to know, I'll also give a hand where I can (but I'm not very advanced myself). it would be best though if they had a couple of people on thier yahoogroup/ML that could answer questions directly.

Finally, here is a link that I've found useful in the past (about MUI and GCC) - http://www.ezcyberspace.com/gcc/

Happy Coding :-)