My name is Prashant. I am interested in developing some desktop applications in LINUX, either in KDE or in GNOME. I am a software professional but my knowledge in C is limited. Will u kindly suggest me the areas where I should start my studies to achieve my this goal.
Prashant Parab
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Prashant wrote:
applications in LINUX, either in KDE or in GNOME. I am a software professional but my knowledge in C is limited. Will u kindly suggest me the areas where I should start my studies to achieve my this goal.
If you're not comfortable with C (although it's an easy language to learn (even as a first language)), you may want to try your hand at python.
also learn one of the toolkits Qt, Gtk, Motif, WxWindows and others, along with their bindings for the particular language that you use.
Once you're reasonably familiar with this - and I mean familiar enough to know where to find documentation for a function when you come across it - download the source of some small GUI app and read through it. Make changes and see how that affects the output.
HTH.
Philip
Prashant wrote:
desktop applications in LINUX, either in KDE or in GNOME. I am a software professional but my knowledge in C is limited.
It's not absolutely necessary to have good knowledge of C (or C++) in order to develop desktop apps for linux. I think Gtk and Qt have Python and/or Perl interfaces as well. So you can download the latest Python (2.2.2 is stable I think) and start learning. Same for Perl.
If you do prefer to develop in C, then start with K&R. Then you can grok the C-faq [http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/faq.html] and spend about a month lurking on comp.lang.c. Go through (casually) the source code of some small, open source applications programs.
You might want to learn C++ for developing with Qt (though you can do with Python, etc.). I can suggest Stroustroup (the C++ programming language). My personal opinion on C++ is that it's an extremely complex and confused language -- sooner or later you might want to move away from it -- unless you're a guru, like the guys who make Qt. But bear in mind that a recent slashdot poll [http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=920&aid=-1] rated C++ as the most favourite language (even over English! :) ).
Manish
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