If he has Java skills and/or experience he should google and join a project called Elimu. I hate Java with a passion myself but I am enjoying working with these guys and learning a lot about (the tyranny of) group development, and working on enterprise level foss.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Muwanga Sent: 18 January 2012 11:16 To: Uganda Linux User Group Subject: [LUG] Learning and mastering programming/development the Open Source way... Hi guys, I have a colleague who is working but wants to shift his career towards software development. Even though he did do computer science degree and loved programming, he kinda side-stepped from that career. He still does programming though, but not really full-fledged development, just like solving those programming competition problems from time to time, nothing full-fledged so he still has relatively strong programming skills but not necessarily development skills. What he wants to do is take it to the next level. A lot of people say "read books", "watch those MIT videos", etc., which honestly is all well and good, but nothing beats hands-on, group development (part-time, or slow paced at least for now), which is very well enshrined in the open source community. To cut a long story short, he wants to get onto such a project but doesn't know where to start or how to get on-board, and, like I said, his programming is relatively good but he doesn't know how to use development tools like debuggers or software repositories like git/subversion. So, if we take him as a beginning and budding developer, what advise can you give to such an individual?
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