Re: Free Code? Where?

From: gswork (gswork_at_mailcity.com)
Date: 11/20/03 

Date: 20 Nov 2003 03:39:20 -0800

jamestan15@hotmail.com (Jim) wrote in message news:<4c950518.0311191732.5a942ad1@posting.google.com>...
> Hi, i have taken a few programming classes already. I think i have
> some basic understanding in C/C++/Java/Scheme. However, all i have
> done so far are writing small console programs. I wanted to take a
> look at the code of large softwares to see how they look like, how
> real programmer do their job. So, can anyone point me a link or
> something? Thanks in advance!

In addition to the links provided you may want to bear in mind that
there is a great distance between the typically small textmode
programs you deal with when learning a language to what you see in
more substantial professional level projects.

It's fun to, say, download the source for Quake but it'll get very
complicated very quickly when you try and follow it. It can even take
longer to understand what's going on in a larger project that it it
does to learn the essentials of a language. Do so for interest but
perhaps focus on smaller projects for learning, at least at first.

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