[Pidgin] #3496: Hello, I greatly appologize for taking up your good time and effort with this fairly unrelated question, but I must ask: Where can I go to learn how (presumably I'll be teaching my self) to write code, and understand the concepts discussed in the many technical locations around your site? This is something that greatly interest

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#3496: Hello, I greatly appologize for taking up your good time and effort with
this fairly unrelated question, but I must ask: Where can I go to learn how
(presumably I'll be teaching my self) to write code, and understand the
concepts discussed in the many technical locations around your site?  This
is something that greatly interest
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  Reporter:  rowan         |       Owner:  lschiere
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  closed  
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:          
 Component:  unclassified  |     Version:  2.2.1   
Resolution:  invalid       |    Keywords:          
   Pending:  0             |  
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Changes (by rlaager):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid

Comment:

 As you noted, this isn't something that belongs as a ticket. If anything,
 you'd want to ask in the IRC channel or on the mailing list.

 If I were you, I'd start by reading some introductory programming texts
 and follow along with the examples. Then I'd start reading code from a
 real application (Pidgin, for example) and try to understand what is
 happening.

 There are plenty of ways to help out that don't involve coding. For
 example, I'd like someone to look at ChangeLog.API and add Doxygen @since
 tags to the documentation of each new function, so that plugin writers
 will be able to easily see when a function was added. This requires no
 programming skill and would be a good way to start looking at various
 files. If you're interested in helping out with that, catch me on IRC. I'm
 rlaager on the irc.freenode.net network and I hang out in the #pidgin
 channel.

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