Re: Free Code? Where?

From: Jim (jamestan15_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/21/03 

Date: 21 Nov 2003 00:12:43 -0800

gswork@mailcity.com (gswork) wrote in message news:<81f33a98.0311200339.7fa5a9c0@posting.google.com>...
> 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.

Thank You very much!

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